129 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48, ride through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-70, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-40, 57-70 and 89-103 -- 39.1% 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-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 24, 48, 56, 71, 72 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
165 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.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
129 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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.
8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 24, 48, 56, 71, 72 and 6 more.