Mercy · Steve Jones

124 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 24 more places -- 71.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 118 BPM
MERCY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 101 and 105.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 2 sections: 120 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-100.

OUTRO
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mercy?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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?

46 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Mercy?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 101 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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