97 bars, 5:20, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-6, silence through bars 7-9, toms through bars 10-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-19, toms through bars 20-23 and snare through bars 24-26, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 20-26 and 28-29, and 9 more places -- 37.2% 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
T2 |x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 43, 68, 72, 77, 86 and 90.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
72 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.
32 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
97 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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 6 times: bars 43, 68, 72, 77, 86 and 90.