77 bars, 4:24, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, silence through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-77.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-21, 23-31 and 37-39, and 1 more place -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |xxxxoxxxxxxxoxxo|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 77.
It cuts the song into 17 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 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.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
77 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 77.