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Carry Stress in the Jaw (No Spy) · Mr. Bungle

EXERCISE 12 OF 77
Join Chorus to Part H (bars 20-22)
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AF
PART A
PART BI
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
17 groovesDAFABIAA+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 5
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carry Stress in the Jaw (No Spy) on drums

215 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, snare through bars 30-32 and ride through bars 33-59, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-18, 33-40 and 178-184 -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |X---x-x-X-x-x-X-x-X-x-X-X-x-x-x-|
SD |----r---------------r-----------|
T2 |----------------------------x-x-|
Carry Stress in the Jaw (No Spy) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 41, 60, 70 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, AF -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-27 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Carry Stress in the Jaw (No Spy)?

140 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 Carry Stress in the Jaw (No Spy) hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Carry Stress in the Jaw (No Spy)?

12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 41, 60, 70 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED