255 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 5:44 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.
kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8, ride through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-58 and ride through bars 59-66, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 35-41 and 43-49, and 13 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x--x-x--|21 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 55 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
178 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
255 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 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.
21 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 55 more.