Mississippi · Pussycat

139 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-24 and 26-40, and 4 more places -- 90.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MISSISSIPPI · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 41, 76, 128 and 138.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 138 · LANDS ON BAR 139
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 2 sections: 130 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-127.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mississippi?

120 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 Mississippi hard to play on drums?

47 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?

139 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Mississippi?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 41, 76, 128 and 138.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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