127 bars, 7:47, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-119 and kick and crashes through bars 120-127.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-101 -- 50.4% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 119.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
127 bars, about 7:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 119.