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Triad · Tool

EXERCISE 14 OF 21
9-bar fill at bar 65
66 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesAS4EBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Triad on drums

114 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 108 BPM, 6:18 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-52, ride through bars 53-73, hi-hat through bars 74-76 and silence through bars 77-114.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-52 -- 68.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
SD |X-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-X|
T1 |gx----------gx----------|
T2 |------gx----------gx----|
FT |---gx----gx----gx----gx-|
BD |x-x---x-x---x-x---x-x-x-|
Triad -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 54, 56, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Triad?

108 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Triad hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 6:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Triad?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 54, 56, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED