79 bars, 4:52, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.
27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-14 and hi-hat through bars 15-44, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 11-12 and 15-39, and 6 more places -- 57% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x---------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
65 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.
27 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
79 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.