177 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42 and ride through bars 43-44, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 13-20 and 49-54, and 15 more places -- 39.4% 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---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|16 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 11, 12, 23, 24 and 46 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
188 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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.
16 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 11, 12, 23, 24 and 46 more.