Three Little Pigs · Green Jelly

210 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 54 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THREE LITTLE PIGS · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 139, 162, 206, 207, 208 and 209.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 139 · LANDS ON BAR 140
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 162 · LANDS ON BAR 163
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 206-209 · LANDS ON BAR 210 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 21 sections: 147 keep time, 6 are fills, 17 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 141-160.

BREAK
PART F
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO 2
12 groovesGKOFS2+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Three Little Pigs?

130 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 Little Pigs 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 6:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Little Pigs?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 139, 162, 206, 207, 208 and 209.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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