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In The Mouth A Desert · Pavement

EXERCISE 16 OF 32
Groove I -- Outro
82 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART H
OUTRO
7 groovesCHDS1E+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The Mouth A Desert on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-22, ride through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-94, snare through bars 95-98 and kick and crashes through bars 99-102.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-20, 22 and 28-33, and 9 more places -- 35.9% 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-----|
In The Mouth A Desert -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 11, 51 and 83.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-49 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 55-80 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-102 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is In The Mouth A Desert?

90 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 Mouth A Desert hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 In The Mouth A Desert?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 11, 51 and 83.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED