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Graduate · Third Eye Blind

EXERCISE 7 OF 42
Groove I -- Part I
30 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART L, PART O
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCOILQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Graduate on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44 and ride through bars 45-46, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 4 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x------------x--|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x--gg---x---|
BD |x--x----x-x--x--|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Graduate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 28 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-45 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-57 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Graduate?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Graduate hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Graduate?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 28 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED