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III Better Version · Far From Forgiven

III Better Version · Far From Forgiven
EXERCISE 19 OF 77
Groove L -- Part L
101 / 234 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART L
PART B
PART D
PART H
PART L
PART O
PART T
PART W
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
19 groovesZIDAJB+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 9
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play III Better Version on drums

234 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 2-36, snare through bars 37-39, hi-hat through bars 40-41, snare through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-45 and snare through bars 46-47, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 18 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
III Better Version -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 109, 110, 118, 171, 175 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-48 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part H and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is III Better Version?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is III Better Version hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 III Better Version?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 109, 110, 118, 171, 175 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED