120 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-84, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 85-92 and 97-120 -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
85
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 44 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
180 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.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
120 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 44 and 6 more.