164 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-30, snare through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56, ride through bars 57-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-78, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-35, 41-47 and 49-55, and 6 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
33 34
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|--x-----x-x---x-|7 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 31, 32, 36 and 25 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
200 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
164 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 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 31 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 31, 32, 36 and 25 more.