153 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40, snare through bars 41-57, hi-hat through bars 58-81, snare through bars 82-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-106, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-44, 46-48 and 83-89, and 9 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
42
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 41, 45, 66, 82, 90, 94 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
180 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 41, 45, 66, 82, 90, 94 and 3 more.