206 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 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.
toms through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-19, ride through bars 20-27, hi-hat through bars 28-29 and ride through bars 30-31, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 169, 171 and 175-177, and 7 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
175 176
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
SD |----------------|x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-xxxx|25 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 13, 15, 17 and 49 more.
It cuts the song into 68 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.
220 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
206 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 21 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.
25 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 13, 15, 17 and 49 more.