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Mercyside · Tristania

Mercyside · Tristania
EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 46 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART B
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDGJBK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mercyside on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-44, toms through bars 45-62, hi-hat through bars 63-77 and snare through bars 78-86, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 87-93 and 119-125, and 1 more place -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 16, 33, 61, 70, 78 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-34 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-22 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-46 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-90 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mercyside?

120 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 Mercyside hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Mercyside?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 16, 33, 61, 70, 78 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED