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Mephistopheles · VENOM

EXERCISE 14 OF 60
Groove I
91 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART G
OUTRO
7 groovesCGDQS9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mephistopheles on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-60, snare through bars 61-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-67, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 8 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |------x-----------x-----------x--x--------x-----|
Mephistopheles -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 32, 36, 58, 60, 70, 78 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-42 -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-67 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mephistopheles?

145 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 Mephistopheles hard to play on drums?

61 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Mephistopheles?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 32, 36, 58, 60, 70, 78 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED