163 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-48 and snare through bars 49-66, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 33-39 and 49-63, and 3 more places -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
49
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
163 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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.
13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 14 more.