153 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-153.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 6 and 10-11, and 17 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
2 3
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----xxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxx--xxxxxx--xx|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-----x---x-----|2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 29, 33, 61, 65, 93 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
172 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 how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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.
2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 29, 33, 61, 65, 93 and 3 more.