3 Libras · A Perfect Circle

83 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 72 BPM, 3:25 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 50, and 8 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
3 LIBRAS · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 19 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 28-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 8 sections: 41 keep time, 25 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-19.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBS1JN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 3 Libras?

72 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is 3 Libras hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Libras?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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