155 bars, 8:37, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, snare through bars 45-77, silence through bars 78-106 and snare through bars 107-155.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 107-155 -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 16, 24, 32, 44, 52 and 7 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.
72 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.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
155 bars, about 8:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 16, 24, 32, 44, 52 and 7 more.