79 bars, 5:20, at 57 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.
toms through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-7, toms through bars 8-23, snare through bars 24-28, hi-hat through bars 29-31 and kick and crashes through bars 32-33, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 34-38 and 62-63, and 1 more place -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
FT |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|1 fill to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
57 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.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
79 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 3 more.