100 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-36, silence through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-100.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 10 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-x---o-x-o---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
170 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
100 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.