77 bars, 4:06, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride and kick and nothing else.
27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-11 and ride through bars 12-77.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 17 more places -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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RD |xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxx|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 35, 63 and 65.
It cuts the song into 12 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.
75 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.
27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
77 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride 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.
1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 35, 63 and 65.