306 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 7:54 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom and kick.
8 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.
silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-88, toms through bars 89-96, snare through bars 97-144 and silence through bars 145-176, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-86, 88 and 97-129, and 15 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
41
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x-x-x---|
SD |x-----x-x-------|1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 38, 90 and 94.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
155 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.
8 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
306 bars, about 7:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 38, 90 and 94.