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exhale, mutant · Rylo

EXERCISE 19 OF 94
Join Chorus to Part L (bars 16-18)
48 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART L
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART Q
PART AB
CHORUS 3
PART AP
PART AX
PART BC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesIQABAXL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play exhale, mutant on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
84/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-8, ride through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-24, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 44 and 46, and 3 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-----------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
exhale, mutant -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 20 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BM -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-78 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 14-26 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part L and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is exhale, mutant?

120 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 exhale, mutant hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 exhale, mutant?

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 20 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED