145 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-4, ride through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-10 and hi-hat through bars 11-12, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18, 20-23 and 25-28, and 3 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
21 22
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x-------x---x---|
HH |----o---o---o---|----o-----------|
SD |--------x---x---|--------x---x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|xx-x--x---x--xx-|20 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13 and 48 more.
It cuts the song into 54 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
145 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
20 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13 and 48 more.