Deep in the Motherlode · Genesis

192 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 5:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-27 and 29-39, and 8 more places -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DEEP IN THE MOTHERLODE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 16, 28, 40 and 26 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 15 sections: 130 keep time, 32 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-27.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART Y
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFJVYAQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deep in the Motherlode?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Deep in the Motherlode hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Deep in the Motherlode?

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 16, 28, 40 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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