149 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-34, snare through bars 35-42, ride through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-70 and kick and crashes through bars 71-74, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-41, 75-81 and 116-122 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
35 36
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-x-----x-|x-----x-x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x-----|17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 34 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
196 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
149 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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.
17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 34 more.