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Three Cheers for Five Years (version 2) · Mayday Parade

EXERCISE 1 OF 101
Groove Q -- Chorus 5
0 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 101 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART T
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART BK
13 groovesQTS10LB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Three Cheers for Five Years (version 2) on drums

191 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-30, snare through bars 31-32, toms through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-60 and silence through bars 61-64, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43 and 49-51, and 17 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x---x---x-|
Three Cheers for Five Years (version 2) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

27 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 28, 34, 36 and 58 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- Q, T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-32 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-45 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-53 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Three Cheers for Five Years (version 2)?

140 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 Three Cheers for Five Years (version 2) hard to play on drums?

53 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Three Cheers for Five Years (version 2)?

27 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 28, 34, 36 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED