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Three Hits · Indigo girls

Three Hits · Indigo girls
EXERCISE 9 OF 24
Fill at bar 27 and 44 (a small one)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS6ACS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Three Hits on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
48/100

toms through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-61, kick and crashes through bars 62-66, hi-hat through bars 67-72 and silence through bars 73-76.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-23 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 52-76 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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