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321 · Scorpions

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 321 on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-87, kick and crashes through bars 88-89, toms through bars 90-91, kick and crashes through bars 92-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-124.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
321 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 26, 30, 37, 58, 62 and 15 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-59 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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