Drum 3 · nttBeats

91 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-58, 60-62 and 64-66, and 1 more place -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DRUM 3 · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 9, 18, 22, 30, 37 and 9 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 9 sections: 51 keep time, 15 are fills, 17 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-71.

PART B
PART E
PART I
PART O
PART R
PART U
PART X
OUTRO
9 groovesAABEUI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drum 3?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Drum 3 hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

91 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 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 Drum 3?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 9, 18, 22, 30, 37 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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