74 bars, 4:05, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.
59 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 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24 and toms through bars 25-27, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 21-24 and 29-31, and 3 more places -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 51, 54, 55, 66 and 73.
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 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.
59 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
74 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 51, 54, 55, 66 and 73.