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Mercury · Crystal Lake

EXERCISE 11 OF 66
2-bar fill at bar 23
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART N
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART Y
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesJPBADE+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 5
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mercury on drums

157 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-31, toms through bars 32-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52 and snare through bars 53-56, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 22 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Mercury -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 23, 24, 32, 44, 64 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-72 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-84 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mercury?

180 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 Mercury hard to play on drums?

55 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Mercury?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 23, 24, 32, 44, 64 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED