368 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 7:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-86, ride through bars 87-100, hi-hat through bars 101-102, snare through bars 103-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-136, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 64 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
11
1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----x-------------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---------------x---|15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 8, 36, 68 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 84 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.
196 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
368 bars, about 7:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 8, 36, 68 and 36 more.