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Mezmer · Pinkly Smooth

Mezmer · Pinkly Smooth
EXERCISE 3 OF 87
Groove AW -- Part AW
35 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 87 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AW
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AQ
PART AW
PART BB
OUTRO
10 groovesAAABBAWAQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mezmer on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
86/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-37, toms through bars 38-40, hi-hat through bars 41-72, toms through bars 73-77 and snare through bars 78-86, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 10, and 13 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BB -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AW -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mezmer?

122 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 Mezmer hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 26 sittings, about 24 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 Mezmer?

21 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED