Even Threes · Xcuse the Blood

63 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 1:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-6, 8-10 and 12-13, and 3 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
EVEN THREES · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 22, 27 and 32.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 5 sections: 42 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

CHORUS
PART G
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesES5VGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Even Threes?

120 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 Even Threes hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 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 Even Threes?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 22, 27 and 32.

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