149 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-25, hi-hat through bars 26-30, ride through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-44 and ride through bars 45-46, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 117-148 -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
117
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxoxooxoxooxox|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 18, 26, 70, 74, 78 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 46 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.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
149 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 18, 26, 70, 74, 78 and 4 more.