103 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-11, hi-hat through bars 12-25, snare through bars 26-29, ride through bars 30-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-38, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 14 and 18, and 12 more places -- 37% 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---X---X---X---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-xx--x---x---x-x-x---x-|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 30, 31 and 103.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
103 bars, about 2:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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.
2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 30, 31 and 103.