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Merry-Axe-Mas · Iccceeee Ninnnne Killlllss

Merry-Axe-Mas · Iccceeee Ninnnne Killlllss
EXERCISE 20 OF 73
Fill at bar 9 and 45 (a small one)
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PART D
PART J
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART S13
PART U
PART Y
PART AD
PART J
CHORUS 3
14 groovesNJGYD+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Merry-Axe-Mas on drums

142 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, snare through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-49, snare through bars 50-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-76, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22, 24-28 and 58, and 3 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24               25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o-------|
SD |------x-----x---|x-----x-----xx--|
BD |x-x-x---x-x---x-|--x-x---x-x---xx|
Merry-Axe-Mas -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 4, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 3 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-18 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 19-40 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Merry-Axe-Mas?

176 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 Merry-Axe-Mas hard to play on drums?

63 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Merry-Axe-Mas?

19 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 4, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED