123 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-30, snare through bars 31-98, kick and crashes through bars 99-108 and hi-hat through bars 109-115, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 15 and 20-22, and 5 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
11
1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 23, 25, 27, 46, 47 and 86.
It cuts the song into 43 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 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
123 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 23, 25, 27, 46, 47 and 86.