67 bars, 4:24, at 61 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-29 and snare through bars 30-67.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36, 38-49 and 51-53, and 4 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |x---x-xxx---x-xxx---x-xxx---x-xx|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
61 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
67 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.