188 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-20, toms through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-68, hi-hat through bars 69-72, snare through bars 73-152 and toms through bars 153-155, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 37-38 and 44, and 7 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
28
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|12 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 34 more.
It cuts the song into 61 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.
175 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
188 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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.
12 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 34 more.