141 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 2:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-47, toms through bars 48-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-51, hi-hat through bars 52-53 and toms through bars 54-56, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 4-5 and 7-8, and 5 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----------------|x-x-------------|
T1 |x---x---x-------|----------------|
T2 |x---x---x-------|----x-x---------|
FT |----------------|--------x-------|
BD |f---x---x-------|x---------------|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 47, 48, 49, 125 and 128.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
230 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
141 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 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.
3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 47, 48, 49, 125 and 128.