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Deep in the Motherlode · Genesis

EXERCISE 22 OF 79
Join Part J to Chorus 2 (bars 47-49)
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CHORUS
PART J
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deep in the Motherlode on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, ride through bars 41-42, toms through bars 43-44, ride through bars 45-46 and toms through bars 47-48, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|
Deep in the Motherlode -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- F, V -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-49 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 77-92 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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