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Third Law · Leprous

EXERCISE 7 OF 59
Groove E -- Part E
103 / 253 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART E
PART A
PART E
PART O
CHORUS
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAMOAZAAR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Third Law on drums

253 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 153 BPM, 5:53 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
253
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bars 1-30, hi-hat through bars 31-54, toms through bars 55-58, ride through bars 59-62, snare through bars 63-66 and toms through bars 67-71, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 5 more places -- 16.1% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----gg|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Third Law -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- O, AM -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AZ -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-31 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Break and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Third Law?

153 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Third Law hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

253 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Third Law?

11 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 253 BARS ANALYSED