132 bars at 267 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-39, ride through bars 40-45, snare through bars 46-47, ride through bars 48-53 and toms through bars 54-55, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-14 and 16-18, and 13 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.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 39, 43, 46 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
267 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.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
132 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 39, 43, 46 and 6 more.