223 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, ride through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-81, ride through bars 82-114 and silence through bars 115-121, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-49, 82-113 and 191-222 -- 37.9% 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-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 57, 65, 73 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
223 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 57, 65, 73 and 4 more.