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tretya · ya

EXERCISE 3 OF 57
Groove W -- Part W
152 / 349 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART W
CHORUS 4
14 groovesDWKRO+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play tretya on drums

349 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 5:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
349
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-30, toms through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48 and snare through bars 49-112, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-30, 49-63 and 65-94, and 8 more places -- 45.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------g-----------|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
tretya -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 31, 32, 47, 48, 112, 128 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 107-132 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is tretya?

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

Is tretya hard to play on drums?

59 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?

349 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 tretya?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 31, 32, 47, 48, 112, 128 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 349 BARS ANALYSED