210 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-35, snare through bars 36-43, hi-hat through bars 44-57, toms through bars 58-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-67, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-20, and 23 more places -- 52.4% 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---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|20 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 27, 35 and 59 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
210 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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.
20 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 27, 35 and 59 more.