101 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-68, snare through bars 69-70, hi-hat through bars 71-76 and snare through bars 77-78, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 28 more places -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 99, 100 and 101.
It cuts the song into 18 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 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 9 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
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.
1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 99, 100 and 101.