three words · Scram, Kurt Roberts-Hutchinson, Casey Robert-Hutchinson, Luke Young, Benjamin Cunningham

77 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 1:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
1:37
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54, 56 and 58, and 6 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
THREE WORDS · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 21 and 16 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 10-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 29-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 4 sections: 47 keep time, 22 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-44.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFUBRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is three words?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is three words hard to play on drums?

56 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 1:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 words?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 21 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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