82 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 1:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42 and ride through bars 43-49, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 10-12, and 5 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
2 3
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|x-----x---------|
RD |--------x-x-x-x-|--x-x-----------|
HH |--o-------------|----------------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
FT |----------------|------------xxxx|
BD |x-x-x-----------|x-----x---x-----|12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 13, 15, 16 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 29 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.
198 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
82 bars, about 1:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 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.
12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 13, 15, 16 and 19 more.