198 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-48, silence through bars 49-58, hi-hat through bars 59-62, snare through bars 63-70, ride through bars 71-86 and silence through bars 87-90, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 79-85, 99-105 and 115-146, and 2 more places -- 36.4% 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---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 106, 110 and 172.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
180 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
198 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 11 sittings, about 21 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.
2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 106, 110 and 172.