161 bars, 9:54, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, toms through bars 29-34, snare through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52 and toms through bars 53-58, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 21-27 and 45-47, and 2 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------r--------r--------r-----r--r--------|
BD |x-x-x-x--x-----x--x-----x--x-----x--------x--x--|9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 34, 35, 52, 56, 58, 59 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
65 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 9:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 34, 35, 52, 56, 58, 59 and 16 more.