Three Hits · Indigo girls

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 15-21 and 23-26, and 7 more places -- 59.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THREE HITS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 22, 27, 35, 44, 61, 70 and 1 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 6 sections: 58 keep time, 7 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-21.

PART A
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS6ACS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Three Hits?

100 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 Hits hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 Hits?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 22, 27, 35, 44, 61, 70 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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