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Mare Mortis · Appleseed Cast

EXERCISE 4 OF 18
Groove D -- Part D
62 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
PART A
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFBDAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mare Mortis on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
55/100

ride through bars 2-25, snare through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, ride through bars 45-61, snare through bars 62-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-88, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-44 and 65-88 -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-----x---------|
HH |x--------------x|
SD |----x-xxx-xxxxxx|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Mare Mortis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- F, B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 17-32 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-89 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mare Mortis?

130 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 Mare Mortis hard to play on drums?

55 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED