Mercy Me · Alkaline Trio

113 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-31, 40-48 and 74-82, and 2 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 162 BPM
MERCY ME · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 56 and 7 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 14 sections: 69 keep time, 13 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-22.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART I
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFHIKAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mercy Me?

162 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 Mercy Me hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Mercy Me?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 56 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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