ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gorging On Mucus And Bile on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 126 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 91
LENGTH: 2:42
DIFFICULTY: 98/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, ride through bars 43-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-58, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 35-41, and 2 more places -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3                                4
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-----|
SD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxx-|

Gorging On Mucus And Bile -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 1-55 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part F and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
Bars 31-54 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
and 3 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Gorging On Mucus And Bile?

126 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 Gorging On Mucus And Bile hard to play on drums?

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Gorging On Mucus And Bile?

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED