205 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 4:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-9, ride through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-19, snare through bars 20-27 and toms through bars 28-29, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 33-39 and 41-47, and 10 more places -- 47.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 12, 28, 29, 52, 82 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
169 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.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
205 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 12, 28, 29, 52, 82 and 20 more.