203 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, ride through bars 15-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-22 and ride through bars 23-29, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 15-20 and 54, and 16 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|13 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 14, 36, 37, 44, 45, 50 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
160 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.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
203 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
13 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 14, 36, 37, 44, 45, 50 and 36 more.