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Mercy · PRESIDENT

EXERCISE 20 OF 57
5-bar fill at bar 26
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0 / 57 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART C
PART D
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesMCDAAB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mercy on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28 and snare through bars 29-30, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 31-33 and 35, and 3 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------x-----x-------x-|
Mercy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 14, 16, 18, 26, 27, 28 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mercy?

104 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 Mercy hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 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 Mercy?

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 14, 16, 18, 26, 27, 28 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED