140 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-30, hi-hat through bars 31-42, snare through bars 43-49, hi-hat through bars 50-56 and snare through bars 57-62, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 31-38 and 47-62, and 1 more place -- 41% 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-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 22, 30, 43, 44, 45 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 22, 30, 43, 44, 45 and 6 more.