129 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 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.
hi-hat through bars 1-41, ride through bars 42-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72, ride through bars 73-80, toms through bars 81-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-112, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-40, 65-72 and 105-112 -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
33 34
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |-xxx-xxx--o---o-|--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
HF |--------x---x---|x---x---x---x---|7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 32, 44 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
170 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 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
129 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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.
7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 32, 44 and 14 more.