126 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, snare through bars 50-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-90, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-33, 50-65 and 98-113 -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 41, 67, 121 and 126.
It cuts the song into 29 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.
160 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
126 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 41, 67, 121 and 126.