144 bars, 8:52, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-144.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-63, 65-67 and 69-71, and 18 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |xxx-------x--x--|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 60, 76, 132 and 140.
It cuts the song into 12 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 sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.
42 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 8:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 60, 76, 132 and 140.