60 bars, 3:56, at 61 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-33, silence through bars 34-36, hi-hat through bars 37-46 and ride through bars 47-49, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9 and 11-15, and 6 more places -- 56.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 52, 57 and 58.
It cuts the song into 17 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 sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.
40 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
60 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 52, 57 and 58.