255 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:18 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 1-76, ride through bars 77-78, snare through bars 79-82, hi-hat through bars 83-120, snare through bars 121-128 and ride through bars 129-160, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-38, 43 and 49-50, and 12 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
58
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 44, 56, 82 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
170 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
255 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 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.
13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 44, 56, 82 and 11 more.