184 bars, 11:00, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-41, silence through bars 42-48 and toms through bars 49-56, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25, 29 and 33, and 13 more places -- 32.7% 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 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---------------|------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----x-|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x---|6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 13 more.
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.
70 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.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
184 bars, about 11:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 13 more.