284 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 5:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-48, ride through bars 49-51, hi-hat through bars 52-64 and ride through bars 65-70, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-17, 19-21 and 25-33, and 26 more places -- 36.5% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|30 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 7, 8, 18, 22, 34, 38 and 58 more.
It cuts the song into 70 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.
200 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
284 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 18 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.
30 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 7, 8, 18, 22, 34, 38 and 58 more.