218 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, toms through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-8, toms through bars 9-10 and silence through bars 11-12, and 26 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-22, 25-30 and 35-40, and 3 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
17 18
1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|------x-----------x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 31, 49, 50, 58, 66, 67 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
240 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
218 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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.
12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 31, 49, 50, 58, 66, 67 and 17 more.