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Matilda Mother · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove K -- Outro 2
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART F
PART D
PART I
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKFIS1C+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Matilda Mother on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-42, toms through bars 43-54, hi-hat through bars 55-70 and ride through bars 71-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 71-86 -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    72
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |--------x---x---x-------x-------x-------x-------|
HH |o---------------o-----------------------o-------|
Matilda Mother -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- K -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, I -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-60 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-87 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Matilda Mother?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Matilda Mother hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Matilda Mother?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED