82 bars, 4:45, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, silence through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-35, silence through bars 36-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-65, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 21 and 23, and 15 more places -- 58.9% 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
HH |--o---xo--o---xo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 74.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
69 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 how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
82 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 74.