202 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 2-33, toms through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-73, toms through bars 74-81, hi-hat through bars 82-96 and toms through bars 97-105, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 42-56 and 82-88, and 9 more places -- 53.7% 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-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 57, 81, 89, 97, 105 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
194 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
202 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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.
10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 57, 81, 89, 97, 105 and 10 more.