#3 · CLUSTER MINE

129 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 19 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
#3 · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 10, 22, 64, 66, 68 and 12 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 12 sections: 70 keep time, 18 are fills, 24 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-21.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
PART S
OUTRO
12 groovesEBKOS+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is #3?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is #3 hard to play on drums?

50 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 10, 22, 64, 66, 68 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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