111 bars, 6:12, 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-57, ride through bars 58-65, hi-hat through bars 66-102 and ride through bars 103-111.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-56 and 83-101 -- 34.5% 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.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 12, 61 and 106.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
111 bars, about 6:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 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.
2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 12, 61 and 106.