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Mausoleum · A Lot Like Birds

EXERCISE 6 OF 63
4-bar fill at bar 3
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PART S2
PART I
PART K
PART O
CHORUS
PART I
PART AG
BREAK 9
19 groovesS23AGUIO+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mausoleum on drums

137 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 4:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-14, ride through bars 15-22, snare through bars 23-30 and silence through bars 31-32, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 62-64 and 66-69 -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
CC |x---------x---------|
RD |---x--x--x--x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--xx--xx----x--xx--|
Mausoleum -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 14 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-11 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 9-15 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-31 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mausoleum?

140 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Mausoleum hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Mausoleum?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 14 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED