78 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 59 BPM, 3:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-29, hi-hat through bars 30-46 and ride through bars 47-78.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 22-24 and 26-27, and 7 more places -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.....2.....3.....
CC |x-----------------|
RD |---x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |---------x--------|
BD |x----------------x|5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 13, 28, 37, 44, 46 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
59 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
78 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 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.
5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 13, 28, 37, 44, 46 and 3 more.