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Mediocrity Rules · Le Tigre

Mediocrity Rules · Le Tigre
EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove A -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesABDES7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mediocrity Rules on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:58 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
1:58
DIFFICULTY
35/100

snare through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, snare through bars 19-30, hi-hat through bars 31-36 and snare through bars 37-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 19-30 and 37-60, and 1 more place -- 68.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 5-13 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-31 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-63 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mediocrity Rules?

150 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Mediocrity Rules hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 1:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED