78 bars, 4:35, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.
41 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 1-27, ride through bars 28-35, hi-hat through bars 36-58, ride through bars 59-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-78.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-26, 37-57 and 67-73, and 1 more place -- 71.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
68 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.
41 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
78 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.