206 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-22 and snare through bars 23-24, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 105-136 -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
105 106
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----xx|x-------x-------|15 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 43 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
160 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 how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
206 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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.
15 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 43 more.