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Schools Out + GH3 Part · Alice Cooper

EXERCISE 9 OF 17
Join Chorus to Part F (bars 23-25)
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0 / 17 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesDFAS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Schools Out + GH3 Part on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-113.

The beat

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.

    41
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x---x-------x---x-|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Schools Out + GH3 Part -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-25 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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