Dirty Equation · Dirty Three

230 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 6:14 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
6:14
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 25-26 and 28, and 20 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
DIRTY EQUATION · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 27, 35, 51, 55, 59, 63 and 25 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

230 bars across 19 sections: 164 keep time, 32 are fills, 1 is a stop and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-119.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART D
PART AM
OUTRO
10 groovesCDRZAM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dirty Equation?

110 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dirty Equation hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dirty Equation?

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 27, 35, 51, 55, 59, 63 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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