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Mia · Chevelle

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove C -- Outro
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0 / 12 PASSED · 41 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mia on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-65.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-31, and 8 more places -- 75.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-x---x-----x---x-|
Mia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 32 and 48.

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 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mia?

118 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 Mia hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Mia?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 32 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED