Mandrake Root · Deep Purple

672 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 22:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
672
LENGTH
22:23
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 313-325, 457-463 and 571-626, and 1 more place -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MANDRAKE ROOT · BAR 571
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 38 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 7-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 26-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

672 bars across 67 sections: 507 keep time, 44 are fills, 11 are stops and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 572-626.

PART BN
CHORUS 3
40 groovesBFBNMCBO+35Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mandrake Root?

120 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 Mandrake Root hard to play on drums?

52 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

672 bars, about 22:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 185 exercises over 47 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Mandrake Root?

12 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 38 more.

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