72 bars, 4:26, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom 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.
The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-9, 17-24 and 41-48 -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx|
SD |---r------------|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
72 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.