124 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-11, ride through bars 12-20, silence through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-71 and ride through bars 72-79, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30 and 32, and 34 more places -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
28
1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------------------------------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
HF |--------x-------x-------x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 11.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
190 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
124 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 9 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 11.