290 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 6:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-42, snare through bars 43-64, toms through bars 65-66, ride through bars 67-98 and snare through bars 99-115, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-45, 47-49 and 51-53, and 9 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
43 44
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-------|
BD |x-----xx--xxx-x-|----x-x---x-x---|27 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 51 more.
It cuts the song into 81 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.
180 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
290 bars, about 6:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 22 sittings, about 28 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.
27 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 51 more.