83 bars, 4:37, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-18, ride through bars 19-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-30, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 17 and 25-30, and 1 more place -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 16, 18, 22, 40, 44 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
72 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.
40 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
83 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 16, 18, 22, 40, 44 and 3 more.