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Cradle · Mudvayne

EXERCISE 1 OF 72
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART AO
PART AV
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesTEAOAVK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cradle on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-23, hi-hat through bars 24-44, ride through bars 45-50 and kick and crashes through bars 51-52, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7 and 9-11 -- 5.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                                6
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |------------------------------o-|------------------o-----o---o---|
HF |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx---|x-xxx-xxxxxxx-xxx---x-----------|
Cradle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 14, 24, 27, 28, 30, 34 and 48 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 -- B, T -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-51 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cradle?

80 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 Cradle hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Cradle?

16 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 14, 24, 27, 28, 30, 34 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED