160 bars at 270 BPM -- fast, and 2:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-10, silence through bars 11-13, hi-hat through bars 14-18 and snare through bars 19-27, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 42 and 70-85 -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
42
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|
HH |--------o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxx-x-x-x-|11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 19, 23, 27, 36, 43, 44 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
73 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.
160 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 19, 23, 27, 36, 43, 44 and 15 more.