165 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-72 and ride through bars 73-165.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-23, 25-35 and 37, and 11 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
13 14
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----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 13 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.
169 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.