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Mercy · Steve Jones

Mercy · Steve Jones
EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove C -- Outro
0 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 89 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mercy on drums

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

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-124.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Mercy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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