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EXERCISE 3 OF 54
Fill at bar 42 (a small one)
19 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART U
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drum 3 on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, snare through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-38 and snare through bars 39-71, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    56
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x--x--x--x--|
Drum 3 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- AA, U -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-39 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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