128 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-63, ride through bars 64-67, hi-hat through bars 68-71, ride through bars 72-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-103, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-11 and 13-14, and 7 more places -- 35.2% 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 |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 15, 39, 63, 67, 71 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
173 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.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
128 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 14 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 15, 39, 63, 67, 71 and 9 more.