213 bars at 280 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 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.
snare through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-10, hi-hat through bars 11-30, ride through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-38 and ride through bars 39-44, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 131, 135 and 183-190, and 3 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|19 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 7, 8, 14, 17, 18, 20 and 58 more.
It cuts the song into 56 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.
280 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
213 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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.
19 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 7, 8, 14, 17, 18, 20 and 58 more.