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#3 · CLUSTER MINE

#3 · CLUSTER MINE
EXERCISE 27 OF 50
Run G1 · Part G (bars 25-33)
92 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play #3 on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
50/100

ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-56, silence through bars 57-63 and snare through bars 64-80, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- B, O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-34 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-126 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-63 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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