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

three words · Scram, Kurt Roberts-Hutchinson, Casey Robert-Hutchinson, Luke Young, Benjamin Cunningham
EXERCISE 12 OF 36
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 12-14)
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0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFUBRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play three words on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
1:37
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-29, toms through bars 30-31 and snare through bars 32-33, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
three words -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- U -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 14-59 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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