161 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-53, ride through bars 54-55, hi-hat through bars 56-57, ride through bars 58-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-61, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-48 and 72-88 -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |X-g-x-g-X-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.