154 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-25, ride through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-49, ride through bars 50-57 and silence through bars 58-65, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 91-154 -- 45.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
91
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
220 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.
78 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.
154 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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.