88 bars, 5:52, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
35 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, toms through bars 5-17, snare through bars 18-25, toms through bars 26-34, snare through bars 35-41 and ride through bars 42-49, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-64 and 66-88 -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---------------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
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.
60 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.
35 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
88 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.