64 bars, 3:39, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-36, silence through bars 37-45 and ride through bars 46-61, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 32, 35, 49 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
35 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
64 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 32, 35, 49 and 7 more.