169 bars at 260 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-30 and toms through bars 31-32, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 25-30 and 41-47, and 8 more places -- 48.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 23, 24, 31, 32, 48, 64 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
260 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.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
169 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 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.
4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 23, 24, 31, 32, 48, 64 and 11 more.