161 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-23, snare through bars 24-34, toms through bars 35-40 and snare through bars 41-82, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 83-89, and 4 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
17 18
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-------x---|----x---------------x-------x---|13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 36, 38, 40, 50 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
205 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 36, 38, 40, 50 and 16 more.