78 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 70 BPM, 3:21 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-45, snare through bars 46-53, silence through bars 54-61, hi-hat through bars 62-69 and kick and crashes through bars 70-78.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-16, 22 and 24, and 10 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |x-----------|4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 29, 37, 39, 45, 61 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 18 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 sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
78 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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.
4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 29, 37, 39, 45, 61 and 1 more.