391 bars, 23:42, at 66 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.
48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
silence through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-12, silence through bars 13-25, snare through bars 26-29, silence through bars 30-37 and toms through bars 38-42, and 30 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 169-205 -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
170
1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |------------o-----------------------------------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------------|21 fills to learn, played 84 times: bars 11, 21, 23, 25, 38, 39 and 78 more.
It cuts the song into 81 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.
66 BPM, in 4/4, 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.
48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
391 bars, about 23:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
21 fills to learn, played 84 times: bars 11, 21, 23, 25, 38, 39 and 78 more.