118 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 101-116 -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
101 102
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |--------------------|----o---o---|
SD |x-------------------|x---x---x---|
FT |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxx|2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 60, 117 and 118.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
163 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
118 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 60, 117 and 118.