106 bars, 6:31, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.
63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-11 and hi-hat through bars 12-106.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 36 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |x-------x-x-----|2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 54 and 106.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
106 bars, about 6:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 54 and 106.