72 bars, 3:57, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.
58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-72.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 13, and 22 more places -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------------|9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 26, 28, 30, 32, 52, 54 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
73 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.
58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
72 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 26, 28, 30, 32, 52, 54 and 7 more.