157 bars at 165 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-21, snare through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29 and snare through bars 30-31, and 23 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-46, 49 and 56, and 10 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.
44
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|31 fills to learn, played 93 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 13, 16, 17 and 87 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
165 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
157 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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.
31 fills to learn, played 93 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 13, 16, 17 and 87 more.