273 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 5:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, toms through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37, ride through bars 38-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-89, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 61 and 67, and 14 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
67
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-----|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 219, 247, 255, 263, 270 and 271.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
205 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
273 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 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.
4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 219, 247, 255, 263, 270 and 271.