99 bars, 5:30, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.
64 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 5-27, ride through bars 28-47, toms through bars 48-49, ride through bars 50-51 and toms through bars 52-53, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 36-38, and 8 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
28 29
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-----------------------x---------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x---------------x-------x-------x-------x---x---|x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---x---|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------------------x---------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x---------------x-----------------------|6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 35, 43, 48, 49, 52, 53 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 21 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.
72 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.
64 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
99 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 35, 43, 48, 49, 52, 53 and 7 more.