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Song 3 · BABYMETAL

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove K -- Part K
0 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART F
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
13 groovesLKAAYF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Song 3 on drums

178 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42, toms through bars 43-50 and snare through bars 51-65, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-42 and 77-83 -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|
HH |--------o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------xx--x-|
Song 3 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 49, 50, 66, 67, 84, 133 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- K, Y -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-99 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 101-127 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Song 3?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Song 3 hard to play on drums?

54 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Song 3?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 49, 50, 66, 67, 84, 133 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED