138 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-50, snare through bars 51-56, hi-hat through bars 57-102 and snare through bars 103-109, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 7 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |oooo-ooooooo-ooo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 56, 60 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
177 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.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
138 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 20 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 56, 60 and 14 more.