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Mission To Mars · Megadeth

EXERCISE 8 OF 63
Join Part B to Part C (bars 16-18)
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART R
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEWGCN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mission To Mars on drums

176 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-34, silence through bars 35-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57 and ride through bars 58-65, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-56, 66-72 and 74-88, and 2 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    43
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------|
Mission To Mars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 57, 65, 73, 89, 97, 105 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-66 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 117-140 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mission To Mars?

140 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 Mission To Mars hard to play on drums?

64 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 Mission To Mars?

13 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 57, 65, 73, 89, 97, 105 and 9 more.

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