84 bars, 4:44, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.
47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-32, silence through bars 33-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-84.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16 and 35-46 -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-xxxxx-x-|
BD |x-------x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
71 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.
47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
84 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.