93 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 1:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-77 and snare through bars 78-93.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 61-75 and 93 -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
61 62
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 12 and 92.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
174 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.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
93 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 12 and 92.