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Signs (V3) · Tesla

EXERCISE 33 OF 42
Groove Y
49 / 63 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
6 groovesCGES7S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Signs (V3) on drums

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
43/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-7, ride through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-23, ride through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-36 and silence through bars 37-40, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8-9 and 12, and 6 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Signs (V3) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 7, 11, 15, 17, 21 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-31 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-31 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-43 -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Signs (V3)?

78 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 Signs (V3) hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Signs (V3)?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 7, 11, 15, 17, 21 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED