128 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-39, ride through bars 40-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-56, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 3 more places -- 16.7% 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
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e 1e+a2e+a3e
CC |x-------------|----------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x-------|----x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x-|--x---x---|22 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 11, 15, 16, 20 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
168 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
128 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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.
22 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 11, 15, 16, 20 and 29 more.