Strike Three · I Never Heard The Bullet

152 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-41, 43-45 and 47-49, and 5 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
STRIKE THREE · BARS 39-40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 30, 36, 38, 62, 77, 83 and 6 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 16 sections: 81 keep time, 12 are fills, 41 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-71.

PART B
PART C
PART I
PART S
CHORUS
PART B
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART AR
OUTRO
12 groovesVSBIC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Strike Three?

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

Is Strike Three hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Strike Three?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 30, 36, 38, 62, 77, 83 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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