181 bars at 218 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40, ride through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-48, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-16, 53-60 and 134, and 5 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxx--xxxxxx|--xxxxxx--------|10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 92, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
218 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.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
181 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 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.
10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 92, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 and 8 more.