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In The Mood · Robert Plant

EXERCISE 19 OF 28
Run K1 · Part K (bars 77-81)
119 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART A
CHORUS
VERSE
PART E
PART A
PART K
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCAEK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The Mood on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

45 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
130
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-81, silence through bars 82-84, hi-hat through bars 85-116, snare through bars 117-120 and hi-hat through bars 121-130.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-22, and 10 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-28 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-77 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 77-117 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is In The Mood?

100 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 In The Mood hard to play on drums?

45 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED