288 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 5:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-41, ride through bars 42-57, hi-hat through bars 58-82 and ride through bars 83-116, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-41, 59-65 and 67-81, and 11 more places -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|20 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 17, 45, 47, 49, 53, 55 and 52 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
202 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
288 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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.
20 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 17, 45, 47, 49, 53, 55 and 52 more.