170 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-44, ride through bars 45-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-50, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 21 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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SD |------X-----------X-----------X-----------X-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------x-----------x--x--------|24 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 48 more.
It cuts the song into 57 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.
174 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 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
170 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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.
24 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 48 more.