115 bars at 270 BPM -- fast, and 2:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, ride through bars 10-11, toms through bars 12-13, ride through bars 14-16 and snare through bars 17-18, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 70-76 and 78-84 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
70
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|5 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
270 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 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
115 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 15 sittings, about 22 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.
5 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 32 more.