154 bars, 8:33, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-34 and ride through bars 35-154.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-67 and 77-153 -- 61.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------xggg--x---------xggg----|
BD |x-----x-----------x---x-------x-|7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 18, 35, 36, 42, 45 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
154 bars, about 8:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 18, 35, 36, 42, 45 and 9 more.