99 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-20, snare through bars 21-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-32, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 68 and 70, and 5 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
68
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BD |x-------x---x-----------x-------|15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 42 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
99 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 26 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 42 and 20 more.