123 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-66, kick and crashes through bars 67-70, hi-hat through bars 71-82, silence through bars 83-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-115, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-66, 86-91 and 98-99, and 1 more place -- 37.2% 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...........
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HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 34, 68 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
185 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.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
123 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, 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.
6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 34, 68 and 1 more.