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Third Season · AFI

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove D -- Outro
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PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDAKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Third Season on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 2:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-57, ride through bars 58-64, hi-hat through bars 65-76 and ride through bars 77-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 12 more places -- 53.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Third Season -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 49, 57, 61, 68, 76 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- D, A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Third Season?

143 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 Third Season hard to play on drums?

51 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Season?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 49, 57, 61, 68, 76 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED