79 bars, 4:35, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
43 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, hi-hat through bars 5-29, ride through bars 30-39, hi-hat through bars 40-65 and ride through bars 66-79.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-8, 26-29 and 52-54, and 3 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
6 7
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---|x---------------|
HH |--x---x---x-|--x-x-x-x-x-----|
SD |----x-------|----x--x----xxxx|
BD |x-----x-x---|x---------x-----|8 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 7, 9, 10, 27, 29, 30 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
67 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.
43 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
79 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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.
8 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 7, 9, 10, 27, 29, 30 and 29 more.