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Milquetoast · Helmet

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 51 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART O
PART U
PART S
OUTRO
6 groovesEOBSU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Milquetoast on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-21, ride through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-27, ride through bars 28-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-40, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-20, 25-26 and 32-39, and 1 more place -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx-x--x-xx-x--|
Milquetoast -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 21, 23, 27, 28, 29 and 15 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-62 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-79 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Milquetoast?

88 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 Milquetoast hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 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 Milquetoast?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 21, 23, 27, 28, 29 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED