159 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, toms through bars 13-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-18, toms through bars 19-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-108, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-39 and 41-47, and 5 more places -- 45% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x---xx--|8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
180 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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.
8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19 and 13 more.