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Mantra · Dave Grohl

Mantra · Dave Grohl
EXERCISE 21 OF 34
Groove G
191 / 233 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART B
PART F
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesABLS8J+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mantra on drums

233 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 7:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
7:27
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-125, ride through bars 126-130, hi-hat through bars 131-135, ride through bars 136-145, hi-hat through bars 146-149 and silence through bars 150-168, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-70, 77 and 79, and 6 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----x---|
BD |x---------------|
Mantra -- 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 184, 231 and 232.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- A, L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part S8 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mantra?

125 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 Mantra hard to play on drums?

44 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 7:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Mantra?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 184, 231 and 232.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED