203 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-13, hi-hat through bars 14-37, silence through bars 38-48, ride through bars 49-80 and silence through bars 81-203.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 162-171 and 188-203 -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
162 163
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|--------x-xxxxxx--------x-------|
HH |--------------------------------|o-------------------------------|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|--x-----x---------x-----x-------|
BD |x-------x-x-xxx-x-------x-x-xxx-|xxx-xxx-x-xxxxxxxxx-xxx-x-------|2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 19 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
200 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.
65 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.
203 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 19 and 5 more.