95 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24 and toms through bars 25-26, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 9-10, and 3 more places -- 12.6% 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
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---xxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
200 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.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
95 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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.
10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 23 more.