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Ashes In Your Mouth · Megadeth

EXERCISE 4 OF 89
Groove A -- Part A
50 / 223 BARS COVERED
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PART C
PART E
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
PART X
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesLXAARU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ashes In Your Mouth on drums

223 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 5:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-21, hi-hat through bars 22-41, toms through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-63 and toms through bars 64-65, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47, 56 and 69, and 17 more places -- 9.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    71
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Ashes In Your Mouth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 10, 14, 23, 24, 28, 32 and 56 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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, L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ashes In Your Mouth?

148 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 Ashes In Your Mouth hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Ashes In Your Mouth?

16 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 10, 14, 23, 24, 28, 32 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED