160 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 4:59 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-35, toms through bars 36-52, snare through bars 53-67, toms through bars 68-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-77, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 12 more places -- 36.4% 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---x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 39 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 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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.
5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 and 7 more.