213 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, toms through bars 26-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58, ride through bars 59-69 and snare through bars 70-86, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 87-89, 93 and 95-96, and 5 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 26, 29, 30 and 18 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
190 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
213 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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.
11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 26, 29, 30 and 18 more.