155 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-86, snare through bars 87-102, hi-hat through bars 103-138 and snare through bars 139-155.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 31-38, and 7 more places -- 38.4% 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.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 14, 46, 58 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
165 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
155 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 14, 46, 58 and 6 more.