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III · Far From Forgiven

III · Far From Forgiven
EXERCISE 16 OF 77
Groove K -- Part K
80 / 210 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART B
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART M
PART AM
OUTRO 2
22 groovesAKAEIG+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 8
JOIN · 16
LINK · 3
SECTION · 18
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play III on drums

210 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 2-34, silence through bars 35-36, snare through bars 37-39, hi-hat through bars 40-41, snare through bars 42-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-45, and 21 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 -- 12.1% 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 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 98, 146, 150 and 186.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- B, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-23 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-38 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part G and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-143 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is III?

160 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 hard to play on drums?

64 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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 III?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 98, 146, 150 and 186.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED