108 bars, 6:39, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36, snare through bars 37-38, hi-hat through bars 39-40 and kick and crashes through bars 41-44, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-32, 44-71 and 84-98 -- 68.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x--x--|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 104 and 108.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
65 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.
38 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
108 bars, about 6:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 4 sittings, about 31 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 104 and 108.