70 bars, 3:48, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
42 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, hi-hat through bars 5-16, snare through bars 17-23, hi-hat through bars 24-39, snare through bars 40-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-70.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 39-41, and 6 more places -- 41.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
17 18
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x------x-xx----x|9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 23, 38, 42 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
73 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.
42 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
70 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 8, 16, 20, 23, 38, 42 and 7 more.