168 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-29, ride through bars 30-35, hi-hat through bars 36-42 and snare through bars 43-45, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 57, and 8 more places -- 40% 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---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 13, 17, 22, 29, 44, 45 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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.
15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 13, 17, 22, 29, 44, 45 and 16 more.