98 bars, 6:15, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.
50 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, hi-hat through bars 5-70, silence through bars 71-74, hi-hat through bars 75-96 and silence through bars 97-98.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-28, 37-62 and 75-82 -- 65.9% 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---|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |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.
64 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.
50 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
98 bars, about 6:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 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.