130 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 2-41, ride through bars 42-50, hi-hat through bars 51-65, ride through bars 66-73, hi-hat through bars 74-96 and snare through bars 97-98, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18, and 17 more places -- 50.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----xxxx----xxxx|
BD |xxxx----xxxx----|4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 49, 57, 97, 105, 128 and 129.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
155 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
130 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 49, 57, 97, 105, 128 and 129.