111 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-23, ride through bars 24-28, hi-hat through bars 29-57, toms through bars 58-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-111.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-32, 35-38 and 50-53, and 5 more places -- 41% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
29 30
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------x---x---|
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx-x-x-xxx|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx-x-x-xxx-x-x-x|xx-x-x-xxx-x-x-x|6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 25, 26, 45, 58 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 39 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 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
111 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 25, 26, 45, 58 and 4 more.