160 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-23, hi-hat through bars 24-71 and snare through bars 72-80, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-47, 65-71 and 73-78, and 6 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
41 42
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--------o-------|o-------o-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|x-------xxx-----|
HF |----------x-----|--x-------------|9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 32, 40, 48 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 32, 40, 48 and 17 more.