219 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 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.
hi-hat through bars 1-31, toms through bars 32-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64, ride through bars 65-71, hi-hat through bars 72-96 and ride through bars 97-104, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 7 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
41
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 52 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 80 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.
190 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
219 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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.
18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 52 and 29 more.