298 bars, 20:32, at 58 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, ride through bars 23-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-164, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-33, 35-53 and 55-82, and 6 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 34, 54 and 249.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
58 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.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
298 bars, about 20:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 34, 54 and 249.