174 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-56, ride through bars 57-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-76, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-54, 87 and 91, and 3 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
39
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 76, 88, 142, 144 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
174 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 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.
7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 76, 88, 142, 144 and 10 more.