245 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 5:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, ride through bars 53-84, hi-hat through bars 85-108, ride through bars 109-157 and hi-hat through bars 158-171, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-42, 45-50 and 85-90, and 11 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
174
1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x---------------x---------------|
BD |--------x---------------x-------|15 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 19, 20, 24 and 34 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
174 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
245 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 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.
15 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 19, 20, 24 and 34 more.