220 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-62 and ride through bars 63-70, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 27 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 31, 32, 46 and 24 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.
160 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.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
220 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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.
17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 31, 32, 46 and 24 more.