140 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-64, hi-hat through bars 65-96 and snare through bars 97-113, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 42, and 9 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
25 26
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----x-----------x-----------x-x-|
BD |x-------x-----------x-------x---|--------x-----------x-----------|10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 24, 40, 48, 56, 65, 66 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 19 times: bars 24, 40, 48, 56, 65, 66 and 13 more.