321 · Scorpions

124 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 27-29 and 31-32, and 15 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
321 · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 26, 30, 37, 58, 62 and 15 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 7 sections: 92 keep time, 22 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-25.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 321?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is 321 hard to play on drums?

55 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 321?

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 26, 30, 37, 58, 62 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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