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Even Threes · Xcuse the Blood

Even Threes · Xcuse the Blood
EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART G
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesES5VGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Even Threes on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-49, ride through bars 50-52 and silence through bars 53-63.

The beat

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.

    5                                    6
    1...........2...........3........... 1...........2...........3...........
CC |------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------|
HH |o-----x--x--x-----x-----x-----x-----|------x-----x-----x-----x--x--o-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------|------------------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----x-----|x-----------x-----------------x-----|
Even Threes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-28 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part V -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-52 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED