230 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-25, silence through bars 26-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-32, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37-39, and 23 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
33
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|22 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 59 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
170 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
230 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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.
22 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 59 more.