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Mercy Me · Alkaline Trio

EXERCISE 15 OF 34
Join Chorus to Part H (bars 22-24)
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0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mercy Me on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-54, ride through bars 55-58, hi-hat through bars 59-88, ride through bars 89-92, snare through bars 93-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-106, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Mercy Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- H, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-49 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-93 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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