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3 Libras · A Perfect Circle

EXERCISE 15 OF 46
Join Chorus to Part J (bars 31-33)
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 3 Libras on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-27, ride through bars 28-32, hi-hat through bars 33-41, ride through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-57, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----x-----|
HH |--o-o---o-o-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x--x-x---x-g|
3 Libras -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-44 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-50 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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