316 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 7:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-185, silence through bars 186-195, hi-hat through bars 196-240, silence through bars 241-250, hi-hat through bars 251-303 and silence through bars 304-316.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-92, 94-100 and 102-108, and 11 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 44, 88, 128, 169, 173, 180 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
168 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
316 bars, about 7:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 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.
6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 44, 88, 128, 169, 173, 180 and 13 more.