160 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56 and snare through bars 57-66, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-38 and 49-55, and 3 more places -- 26.7% 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-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 12, 16, 32, 39, 40, 44 and 33 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
185 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 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 29 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.
18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 12, 16, 32, 39, 40, 44 and 33 more.