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Mechanix · Megadeth

EXERCISE 19 OF 52
Groove R
192 / 258 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART M
OUTRO
13 groovesJAGMAB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mechanix on drums

258 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 10:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
10:32
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-12, silence through bars 13-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-20, silence through bars 21-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-47, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31-32, and 38 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    29
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--------x--x--------|
Mechanix -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- J, AG -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part S3 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 106-120 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 135-158 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mechanix?

98 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 Mechanix hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

258 bars, about 10:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 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 Mechanix?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 258 BARS ANALYSED