128 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-64, ride through bars 65-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-128.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-48, 73-75 and 77-79, and 3 more places -- 48.4% 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---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 76 and 88.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
128 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 76 and 88.