100 bars, 6:40, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.
53 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 and hi-hat through bars 5-100.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 9 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
12
1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--o--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x----g------x----g|
BD |x--x--------g--x--------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
60 BPM, in 4/4, 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.
53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
100 bars, about 6:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.