163 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-6, toms through bars 7-16, hi-hat through bars 17-41, snare through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-70, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-48, 71-77 and 139-145 -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
42 43
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-x-----|--x-----x-----x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x-|----x-x-x-x-x---|16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 66 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.
194 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.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
163 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16 and 32 more.