146 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-77, snare through bars 78-85, hi-hat through bars 86-97, snare through bars 98-104, silence through bars 105-117 and snare through bars 118-125, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-32, 41-43 and 45-47, and 3 more places -- 46% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 94, 95, 96 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
180 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.
96 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.
146 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 94, 95, 96 and 1 more.