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Creatures From The Mud · Shokran

EXERCISE 7 OF 65
Groove C -- Part C
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART I
PART Q
PART G
PART V
PART C
CHORUS
PART AP
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
15 groovesAGS17CGI+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Creatures From The Mud on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-24, snare through bars 25-42, hi-hat through bars 43-45, snare through bars 46-73 and kick and crashes through bars 74-76, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-59, 61-62 and 65-67, and 5 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57                                               58
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----------------------------x-----|------x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----------|
Creatures From The Mud -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 34, 36, 38, 42, 48 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- AG -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Creatures From The Mud?

122 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 Creatures From The Mud hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Creatures From The Mud?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 34, 36, 38, 42, 48 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED