166 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-72, ride through bars 73-164 and kick and crashes through bars 165-166.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13 and 15-71 -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
15 16
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------X-X-|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x---x---x-----|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 120.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
166 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.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
166 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 120.