78 bars, 4:10, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-78.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20, 22-52 and 54-77 -- 94.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x--g--x--g--x--g--x--g--x--g--x--g--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------------x-----------------------x---------xx|
BD |x-----x--------------x--------x-----------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 78.
It cuts the song into 5 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 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.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
78 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 78.