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For Mom · Buckethead

EXERCISE 24 OF 32
Groove N -- Part N (a two-bar phrase)
161 / 204 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
CHORUS
PART I
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEHNIS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play For Mom on drums

204 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
6:16
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-75, ride through bars 76-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-204.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 66 more places -- 35.6% 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+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
For Mom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 11 and 204.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- E, H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-40 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is For Mom?

130 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 For Mom 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 6:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 For Mom?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 11 and 204.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED