89 bars, 4:53, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-19, hi-hat through bars 20-37, ride through bars 38-44, silence through bars 45-46 and ride through bars 47-52, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-37 and 53-64 -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |------------o-----------------------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------------|3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
89 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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.
3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 3 more.