190 bars at 231 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72 and ride through bars 73-88, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 33-37 and 39-45, and 10 more places -- 37.4% 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---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 48, 56, 88, 142 and 190.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
231 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
190 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 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.
4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 48, 56, 88, 142 and 190.