176 bars, 11:54, at 61 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-50 and ride through bars 51-52, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 106-112, 114-120 and 122-128 -- 12.7% 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............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------x-----------------------|
HH |--------------------------------o-------------------------------|o---------------------------------------------------------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------x-------x-------|x-----------------------x---------------x-----------------------|16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 7, 12, 13, 15, 20 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 66 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.
61 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.
61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
176 bars, about 11:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 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.
16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 7, 12, 13, 15, 20 and 23 more.