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Mayonaise · Smashing Pumpkins

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS4PS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mayonaise on drums

86 bars, 4:39, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-55, silence through bars 56-62, ride through bars 63-76 and snare through bars 77-78, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11-12 and 15-17, and 13 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 18 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part S4 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-63 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mayonaise?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Mayonaise hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Mayonaise?

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 18 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED