207 bars at 265 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-31, hi-hat through bars 32-36, snare through bars 37-39, hi-hat through bars 40-52 and toms through bars 53-54, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 26-28 and 30-31, and 21 more places -- 37.4% 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.......
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BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 8, 11, 12, 19, 20 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
265 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
207 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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.
6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 8, 11, 12, 19, 20 and 11 more.