205 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 5:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-9, snare through bars 10-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-23, ride through bars 24-44 and toms through bars 45-47, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 88-90, 92 and 94, and 10 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
90
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|28 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15 and 45 more.
It cuts the song into 74 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.
158 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
205 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 19 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.
28 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15 and 45 more.