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Flash Mountain · Djo

EXERCISE 31 OF 36
Run U1 · Part U (bars 129-152)
181 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART F
PART N
PART U
PART A
OUTRO
8 groovesBAFUN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flash Mountain on drums

192 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-48, snare through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-64, ride through bars 65-72 and toms through bars 73-95, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-48, 65-71 and 153-159, and 1 more place -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Flash Mountain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 96, 117, 118, 125, 126 and 128.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B, A -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-116 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 129-175 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Flash Mountain?

177 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Flash Mountain hard to play on drums?

55 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Flash Mountain?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 96, 117, 118, 125, 126 and 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED