95 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-66, hi-hat through bars 67-73 and snare through bars 74-95.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-33, 51-65 and 75-89 -- 47.4% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--xx--xx--xx--xx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 9 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.
160 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.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
95 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.