121 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:46 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 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-32, hi-hat through bars 33-55, ride through bars 56-113 and hi-hat through bars 114-121.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-54 -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
33
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x-x-xxxxx-|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 118, 119 and 120.
It cuts the song into 45 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.
175 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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.
1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 118, 119 and 120.