Mistakes · Godsmack

158 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 36-42, 52-58 and 60-66 -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MISTAKES · BARS 36-37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 43, 67, 68, 70, 76, 78 and 12 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 83-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 17 sections: 85 keep time, 18 are fills, 3 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-66.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART G
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART L
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEGLS1S+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mistakes?

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 Mistakes hard to play on drums?

45 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Mistakes?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 43, 67, 68, 70, 76, 78 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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