130 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-118, kick and crashes through bars 119-122, snare through bars 123-127 and kick and crashes through bars 128-130.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-13 and 31-37, and 8 more places -- 36.2% 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 |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----|3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 14, 86, 102, 118, 123 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
185 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.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
130 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 14, 86, 102, 118, 123 and 4 more.