179 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-7 and hi-hat through bars 8-179.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 33-48 and 59-138, and 4 more places -- 80.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 141, 142, 154 and 170.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
179 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 141, 142, 154 and 170.