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Three Bastards · Infant Annihilator

EXERCISE 24 OF 79
Groove X
61 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W
PART C
PART W
PART AK
PART AP
PART AX
PART AK
CHORUS 2
PART BU
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesADCAKAXAP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Three Bastards on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
96/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-6, ride through bars 7-9, snare through bars 10-11, ride through bars 12-18 and toms through bars 19-25, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40 and 93-99 -- 5.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    93
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Three Bastards -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 64 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BU -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part W -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Three Bastards?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Three Bastards hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

20 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED