105 bars, 6:00, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-57 and ride through bars 58-105.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-33 and 58-105 -- 53.3% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 9 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.
33 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
105 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 31 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.