271 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 4:31 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 how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-24, toms through bars 25-36, ride through bars 37-38, toms through bars 39-40, ride through bars 41-48 and toms through bars 49-56, and 25 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38, 62-63 and 69, and 10 more places -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
62 63
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|----------------|
HH |----------------|o-----o---------|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|-xxxxx-xxxxx----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-----x-----xxxx|21 fills to learn, played 126 times: bars 32, 34, 36, 38, 39, 40 and 120 more.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
240 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 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
271 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 24 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.
21 fills to learn, played 126 times: bars 32, 34, 36, 38, 39, 40 and 120 more.