116 bars, 7:52, at 59 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-22, toms through bars 23-31, silence through bars 32-34, hi-hat through bars 35-54 and toms through bars 55-62, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-13, 15-21 and 35-37, and 3 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
15 16
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|x---------x-----|5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 14, 26, 28, 29, 30, 38 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
59 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.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
116 bars, about 7:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 14, 26, 28, 29, 30, 38 and 10 more.