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3am · Matchbox 20

3am · Matchbox 20
EXERCISE 24 OF 45
Groove U
65 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART I
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesOAEAFJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 3am on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-19 and hi-hat through bars 20-73, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-37, 40-41 and 44-45, and 1 more place -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36               37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------x-------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------r---|
BD |--x-----x--x--x-|--x---x-x-------|
3am -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 30, 31, 65 and 99.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- O, J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-61 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-66 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part D and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 3am?

108 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 3am hard to play on drums?

45 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 3am?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 30, 31, 65 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED