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Mayday · Amen

EXERCISE 9 OF 39
2-bar fill at bar 25 and 1 more
55 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART A
PART B
PART M
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDIBMN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mayday on drums

118 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-24, ride through bars 25-26, snare through bars 27-34, ride through bars 35-36 and snare through bars 37-58, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 27-31 and 51-58, and 1 more place -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Mayday -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 26, 32, 45, 59, 60 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-81 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-98 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-117 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mayday?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mayday hard to play on drums?

45 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Mayday?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 26, 32, 45, 59, 60 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED