96 bars, 5:29, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-30, snare through bars 31-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-39, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-28, 40-55 and 61-74, and 1 more place -- 60.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
13 14
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|x-----x---x-----|2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 39, 60 and 86.
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.
70 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.
36 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
96 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 39, 60 and 86.