Three Seed · Silversun Pickups

201 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-83, 85-100 and 115-130, and 2 more places -- 81.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THREE SEED · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

201 bars across 6 sections: 178 keep time and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-99.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFS1DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Three Seed?

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 Seed hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
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