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Aint no mountain · Marvin Gaye

EXERCISE 18 OF 25
Run N1 · Part N (bars 55-60)
80 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
CHORUS
PART K
PART N
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBKMGNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aint no mountain on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
42/100

snare through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-27, snare through bars 28-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, toms through bars 42-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 3 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----rrrrr-------|----------------|
BD |x-------------x-|x-------------x-|
HF |----x-------X---|----x-------x---|
Aint no mountain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, M -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-73 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Aint no mountain?

126 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Aint no mountain hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED