72 bars, 3:50, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
32 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, toms through bars 5-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-32 and toms through bars 33-36, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 37-44 and 49-72 -- 53.8% 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-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x--x----x--x----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
75 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.
32 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
72 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.