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99 · Mob Choir

99 · Mob Choir
EXERCISE 10 OF 75
Join Break to Part S2 (bars 1-3)
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0 / 75 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK, PART S2
BREAK
PART S2
PART D
PART S
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART AK
17 groovesRSDVAK+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 99 on drums

181 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 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
181
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-11, hi-hat through bars 12-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-17, toms through bars 18-19 and hi-hat through bars 20-32, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-49, 92-97 and 116-120, and 1 more place -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
99 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 15, 18, 19, 35, 36, 37 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- R -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-22 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-40 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-50 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part V -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 99?

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 99 hard to play on drums?

58 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 99?

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 15, 18, 19, 35, 36, 37 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED