ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 3 on drums

130 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 190 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 130
LENGTH: 2:56
DIFFICULTY: 75/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-26, hi-hat through bars 27-28, snare through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34 and silence through bars 35-45, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-26, 37-44 and 84-91 -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19                               20
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |--------------------------------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|--------------------------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x---x---x-x-x---x---x-x-x---|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---x---x--x-x--|

3 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 33, 46, 64, 65, 70, 71 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 14-30 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
Bars 33-48 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part O and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 51-66 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
and 7 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is 3?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second 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?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 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?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 33, 46, 64, 65, 70, 71 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED