149 bars, 29:21, at 20 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom 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.
silence through bars 1-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-37, snare through bars 38-43, toms through bars 44-45, hi-hat through bars 46-52 and silence through bars 53-55, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46, 48-51 and 73-75, and 9 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
48 49
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x--x----x--x--x-|--xx----x-xx--x-|7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 34, 44, 45, 71, 72, 76 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
20 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
149 bars, about 29:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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.
7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 34, 44, 45, 71, 72, 76 and 8 more.