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3 · Apostazja
EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 59 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART O
PART S
BREAK 2
OUTRO
9 groovesAS10SJO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 3 on drums

184 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
66/100

ride through bars 1-49, silence through bars 50-57, hi-hat through bars 58-65, ride through bars 66-90, hi-hat through bars 91-114 and ride through bars 115-122, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 9 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|
3 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 48, 57, 65, 73, 81, 90 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 11 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 3?

150 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 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

How many fills are in 3?

13 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 48, 57, 65, 73, 81, 90 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED