145 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-73, silence through bars 74-76, kick and crashes through bars 77-80, hi-hat through bars 81-88, ride through bars 89-96 and snare through bars 97-104, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 24-27 and 29-31, and 9 more places -- 36.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
20
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 76, 96, 100, 104 and 108.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
200 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
145 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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.
4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 76, 96, 100, 104 and 108.