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Missionary Man · Ghost

EXERCISE 9 OF 31
Join Chorus to Part E (bars 37-39)
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PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEPBM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Missionary Man on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-50 and ride through bars 51-58, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-17, 26-33 and 51-58, and 2 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x---|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|--x-----x-------|
Missionary Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 41, 49, 50, 66, 74 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 35-75 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 69-84 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 79-94 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Missionary Man?

129 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 Missionary Man hard to play on drums?

54 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Missionary Man?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 41, 49, 50, 66, 74 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED