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Good Mourning · Severance

Good Mourning · Severance
EXERCISE 27 OF 54
Fill at bar 64, 72 and 105 (a small one)
114 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART A
PART G
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
8 groovesKPAXH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Good Mourning on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:55
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-56, snare through bars 57-71, hi-hat through bars 72-97 and snare through bars 98-113, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-38, 40 and 42-43, and 15 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
BD |------------------x-----------------------x-----|
Good Mourning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 36, 56, 60, 64, 68 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- K, P -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-119 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part P and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Good Mourning?

100 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 Good Mourning 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 5:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Good Mourning?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 36, 56, 60, 64, 68 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED