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Mississippi Queen · Mountain

EXERCISE 21 OF 21
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mississippi Queen on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

46 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
87
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-50, snare through bars 51-54, hi-hat through bars 55-66, snare through bars 67-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-82, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 19 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|
Mississippi Queen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 30, 54 and 78.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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, G -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-60 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-61 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-78 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Mississippi Queen?

140 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 Queen hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Mississippi Queen?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 30, 54 and 78.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED