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Heavier than Mercury · Brined

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove V -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heavier than Mercury on drums

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.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
89/100

toms through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-16, ride through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32 and silence through bars 33-45, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    65                               66
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |--F-X-X-----X-X-g-X-g-X---X-X-X-|--F-X-X-----X-X---X---X---X-X-X-|
HH |o-------o-o---------------------|o-------o-o---------------------|
SD |------------------------X-X-X-F-|----------------X---X-X-X-X-X-F-|
BD |X---g---g---X---X---g-F-g---X-g-|X---g---g---X---X---g-F-g---X-g-|
Heavier than Mercury -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- V -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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