192 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72, ride through bars 73-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-149, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 33-39, and 8 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 16 more.
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.
170 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
192 bars, about 4:30 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 and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 16 more.