73 bars, 4:10, 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.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-10, ride through bars 11-16, snare through bars 17-18 and ride through bars 19-33, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 20 and 23, and 2 more places -- 7.2% 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.......
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SD |x---x---x---x-x-x---x---x---x---|4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 37, 39, 40, 41, 43, 63 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
73 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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.
4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 37, 39, 40, 41, 43, 63 and 1 more.