Schools Out + GH3 Part · Alice Cooper

113 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-23, 41-57 and 59, and 4 more places -- 68.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 129 BPM
SCHOOLS OUT + GH3 PART · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 64.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 6 sections: 95 keep time, 2 are fills, 10 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-113.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesDFAS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Schools Out + GH3 Part?

129 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 Schools Out + GH3 Part 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Schools Out + GH3 Part?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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