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Strike Three · I Never Heard The Bullet

Strike Three · I Never Heard The Bullet
EXERCISE 6 OF 61
Groove B -- Part B
68 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART C
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Strike Three on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-34, hi-hat through bars 35-51 and snare through bars 52-81, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    39                               40
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------x---------------x-x-x-x-|--------------------------------|
Strike Three -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- S, V -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 7-28 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-57 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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