231 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 2-11, silence through bars 12-18, ride through bars 19-58, hi-hat through bars 59-64, toms through bars 65-68 and snare through bars 69-115, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28, 32 and 36, and 10 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
41 42
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x---------------|
SD |----------------|x---------------|
BD |x---x-x---x-x-x-|------x-----x---|17 fills to learn, played 111 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 21, 22 and 105 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
240 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
231 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
17 fills to learn, played 111 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 21, 22 and 105 more.