Mince Lesson 1 · Larval therapy

36 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 1:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
1:07
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 28-30, and 1 more place -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MINCE LESSON 1 · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 2, 7 and 11.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

36 bars across 2 sections: 26 keep time, 3 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-30.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesIJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mince Lesson 1?

130 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 Mince Lesson 1 hard to play on drums?

51 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 1:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Mince Lesson 1?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 2, 7 and 11.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 36 BARS ANALYSED
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