209 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-24 and snare through bars 25-32, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37-39, and 13 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
33
1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
FT |------------------------------------------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|22 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 28, 36, 44 and 51 more.
It cuts the song into 79 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.
160 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
209 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 26 sittings, about 27 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.
22 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 28, 36, 44 and 51 more.