227 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-32, toms through bars 33-34, ride through bars 35-105, snare through bars 106-121, ride through bars 122-128 and silence through bars 129-130, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 26 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----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-----|7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 31, 32 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
175 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.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 94 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
227 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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.
7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 31, 32 and 11 more.