Heavier than Mercury · Brined

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 65-72 -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 89 BPM
HEAVIER THAN MERCURY · BARS 65-66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 17 more.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 89 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BARS 6-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 7 sections: 21 keep time, 23 are fills, 8 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-73.

CHORUS
PART L
PART Q
BREAK
PART S5
BREAK 2
OUTRO
7 groovesBS5LS4V+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heavier than Mercury?

89 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 Heavier than Mercury hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Heavier than Mercury?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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