3 Am · Matchbox Twenty

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-30, 53-58 and 84-89, and 1 more place -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
3 AM · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 31, 52, 82, 83, 90 and 2 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 82-83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 90-91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 11 sections: 73 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-17.

CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBHFES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 3 Am?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is 3 Am hard to play on drums?

53 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in 3 Am?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 31, 52, 82, 83, 90 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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