72 bars, 5:51, at 49 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 2-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-72.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 13 and 29, and 8 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x--------x--x--------x--|
HH |---o--o--------o--o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x--x--------x--|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 67.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
49 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.
44 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
72 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 67.