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Drown · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 3 OF 23
Groove D (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
3 groovesAFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drown on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
41/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-64, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 4-6 and 27, and 16 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---x---|
BD |------x---------|
Drown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 49, 94, 95, 96, 97 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A, B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Drown?

150 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 Drown hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Drown?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 49, 94, 95, 96, 97 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED