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Dig · Mudvayne

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove F -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFKVOY+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dig on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-20 and ride through bars 21-28, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 29-31, and 3 more places -- 22.2% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxx-----xxxxxxxx|
Dig -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-32 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-45 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dig?

135 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Dig hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 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 Dig?

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED