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Inis Mona · Eluveitie

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBJHNF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Inis Mona on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 2-22, snare through bars 23-31, hi-hat through bars 32-51, snare through bars 52-59, hi-hat through bars 60-75 and snare through bars 76-90, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 32-34, and 5 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x----x--x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|x-x----x--x---xx|
Inis Mona -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 5, 9, 14, 18, 22, 26 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-43 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 74-96 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Inis Mona?

107 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 Inis Mona hard to play on drums?

59 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?

111 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Inis Mona?

8 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 5, 9, 14, 18, 22, 26 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED