62 bars, 3:49, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
44 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, toms through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-41, hi-hat through bars 42-44 and snare through bars 45-62.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-20, 23-24 and 27, and 4 more places -- 62.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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BD |x-----------------------x-------x-------------------------------|3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 6, 9, 32, 48, 51 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
64 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.
44 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
62 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 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.
3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 6, 9, 32, 48, 51 and 1 more.