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Marrow · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 6 OF 28
63-bar fill at bar 38
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0 / 28 PASSED · 63 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART A
PART P
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAOPAS6S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Marrow on drums

209 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
83/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and snare through bars 65-112, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73, 97 and 101, and 7 more places -- 5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    178
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---x---x---x-x-|
SD |----x--g-g--x--g|
BD |x--x----x--x--x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Marrow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 193 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 187 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- AO -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 75 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part A and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 8-101 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Marrow?

150 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 Marrow hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 12 sittings, about 32 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Marrow?

6 fills to learn, played 193 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 187 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED