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Flood III · Boris

EXERCISE 9 OF 21
Run S21 · Break (bars 5-6)
50 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK
COUNT-IN
BREAK
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDEFJS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flood III on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 2:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-7 and ride through bars 8-65.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 13-15 and 18-20, and 5 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    8
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x-------x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------xx------------x---|
Flood III -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 6 and 45.

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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-46 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 43-59 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Flood III?

76 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 Flood III hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Flood III?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 6 and 45.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED