60 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 1:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 31-37, and 1 more place -- 48.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
5 6
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x-x-|x---x-x-x---o---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----g---------x-------|--------x---------------x-----g-|
BD |x-----x---------x-----x---------|x-----x---------x-----x---------|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 60.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
176 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.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
60 bars, about 1:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 60.