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Does Your Mother Know · ABBA

EXERCISE 13 OF 19
Groove K
104 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
VERSE
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Does Your Mother Know on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-122.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-16, and 22 more places -- 59.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxo-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Does Your Mother Know -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 30, 46, 63, 88, 89 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Does Your Mother Know?

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 Does Your Mother Know hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Does Your Mother Know?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 30, 46, 63, 88, 89 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED