77 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 70 BPM, 3:19 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-77.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 22-23 and 26, and 1 more place -- 35.6% 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.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------r-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 33, 36, 38, 40, 56 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
70 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.
49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
77 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 33, 36, 38, 40, 56 and 6 more.