252 bars, 21:00, at 48 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-52, snare through bars 53-106, kick and crashes through bars 107-109, silence through bars 110-116, hi-hat through bars 117-128 and toms through bars 129-132, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 181-227 -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
181 182
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |g---g---g---g---|g---g---g---g---|
SD |----g---x-----xx|--g-----x-----xx|
BD |x-----x---------|------x---------|5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 58, 60, 105, 106, 120, 130 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
48 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.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
252 bars, about 21:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 58, 60, 105, 106, 120, 130 and 5 more.