202 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-48, silence through bars 49-54, toms through bars 55-56 and ride through bars 57-202.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 57-80, and 5 more places -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
210 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
202 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.