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Triple The Threat · BAD TIME TRIO

Triple The Threat · BAD TIME TRIO
EXERCISE 4 OF 43
Groove R -- Part R
27 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART R
PART S11
PART M
9 groovesDMPRS11+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Triple The Threat on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, snare through bars 11-16, hi-hat through bars 17-56, snare through bars 57-60 and kick and crashes through bars 61-76, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 17-19 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-------x-x-----|
Triple The Threat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 24, 40, 44, 56, 57 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-53 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Triple The Threat?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Triple The Threat hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Triple The Threat?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 24, 40, 44, 56, 57 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED