127 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-21, hi-hat through bars 22-28, snare through bars 29-35, hi-hat through bars 36-71 and snare through bars 72-73, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-50, 52 and 54-63, and 2 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
43
1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o---------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x--------------------------x----x--------------------------x----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
127 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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.