I did a cover version of The Black Page and I had the chance of having Terry Bozzio himself comment of my version in a video on Drum Channel. This was pretty cool. You can see the video comment of Bozzio here:
I did this as one of my Senior recital pieces back in the day.
One good way to work on it is to write it all as a snare solo...helps you get the feel of the groupings. Then of course...break it all back out to the correct voices.