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Hook In Mouth · Megadeth

EXERCISE 34 OF 34
Play the whole song with the record
171 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 177 BARS LIT
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBCJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hook In Mouth on drums

177 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-62, toms through bars 63-64, hi-hat through bars 65-72 and ride through bars 73-80, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-60, 65-71 and 81-83, and 13 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--xx--xx--|
Hook In Mouth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 2, 26, 62, 63, 64 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-74 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-85 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 114-176 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Hook In Mouth?

152 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 Hook In Mouth hard to play on drums?

63 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Hook In Mouth?

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 2, 26, 62, 63, 64 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED