133 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-88, silence through bars 89-92, snare through bars 93-105 and silence through bars 106-108, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 109-115 and 117-128 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
109 110
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---------------x-x-x-x-x-------|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----------x-------x-------x---|6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 30, 42, 58, 70, 76 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 60 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.
177 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
133 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 30, 42, 58, 70, 76 and 1 more.