164 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, snare through bars 27-42, hi-hat through bars 43-66 and snare through bars 67-81, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-13 and 15-17, and 21 more places -- 56.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
190 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
164 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 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.
14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 26 more.