73 bars, 4:10, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick 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 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-73.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-9, 11-14 and 19-21, and 13 more places -- 63.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
7 8
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---xx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 24, 36, 46, 58, 60 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
70 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.
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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
73 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 24, 36, 46, 58, 60 and 4 more.