218 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34 and snare through bars 35-67, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 27-30, and 21 more places -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 38, 46, 50, 58, 87 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
180 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
218 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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.
5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 38, 46, 50, 58, 87 and 13 more.