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Mailman · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 7 OF 44
Groove D -- Part D
67 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D, CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBCDMS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mailman on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
41/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-27, snare through bars 28-30, hi-hat through bars 31-55, snare through bars 56-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-96, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 34 more places -- 42.7% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Mailman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 38, 44, 46 and 19 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, N (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-55 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-64 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mailman?

92 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 Mailman hard to play on drums?

41 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:37 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, 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 Mailman?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 38, 44, 46 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED