134 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-12, hi-hat through bars 13-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-64 and kick and crashes through bars 65-73, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-27, and 13 more places -- 42.5% 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.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x--------x-x----x--------x-x----|10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 16, 20 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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 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.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
134 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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.
10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 16, 20 and 15 more.