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A7v Mephisto · 1914

EXERCISE 29 OF 71
Groove N -- Part N
248 / 344 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
CHORUS
PART I
PART N
PART P
PART W
PART AC
PART I
OUTRO
10 groovesDIACPW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A7v Mephisto on drums

344 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 6:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
344
LENGTH
6:53
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-80, ride through bars 81-130, hi-hat through bars 131-184 and ride through bars 185-214, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 13-17 and 19, and 75 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
BD |x---------------x-------x-------|
A7v Mephisto -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 9, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 9 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-25 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 77-114 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A7v Mephisto?

200 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 A7v Mephisto hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

344 bars, about 6:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 A7v Mephisto?

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 9, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 344 BARS ANALYSED