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Mental Hopscotch · Missing Persons

Mental Hopscotch · Missing Persons
EXERCISE 6 OF 31
Groove E
76 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBHLAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mental Hopscotch on drums

135 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-112, toms through bars 113-119, hi-hat through bars 120-126, toms through bars 127-128 and hi-hat through bars 129-133, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-31, 41-47 and 49-63, and 1 more place -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Mental Hopscotch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 48, 64, 88, 104, 127, 128 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mental Hopscotch?

170 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 Mental Hopscotch hard to play on drums?

63 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Mental Hopscotch?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 48, 64, 88, 104, 127, 128 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED