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Song 3 · Diseased Ways

EXERCISE 20 OF 57
Groove K -- Part K
101 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART K, PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
PART O
PART A
PART K
OUTRO
18 groovesBAFKO+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Song 3 on drums

182 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-32, silence through bars 33-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-44, snare through bars 45-56, silence through bars 57-58 and snare through bars 59-65, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 14 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 40, 47, 55, 61, 140, 148 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-42 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Song 3?

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 Song 3 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

182 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 40, 47, 55, 61, 140, 148 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED