73 bars, 4:00, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-11, ride through bars 12-13, toms through bars 14-18, ride through bars 19-22, toms through bars 23-34 and kick and crashes through bars 35-36, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-17, 41-42 and 45 -- 10.1% 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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BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 25, 28, 32, 33, 59 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
72 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.
41 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 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 25, 28, 32, 33, 59 and 6 more.