M3 · les apollo

108 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
17/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-20, 31-32 and 37-39, and 5 more places -- 51.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
M3 · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 14 sections: 89 keep time and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-108.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesCBS1S4S11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is M3?

140 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 M3 hard to play on drums?

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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