Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm · Crash Test Dummies

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13, 16 and 18-20, and 3 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
MMM MMM MMM MMM · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 25, 30, 42, 46, 50 and 1 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 7 sections: 50 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBEIS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm?

93 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 Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 25, 30, 42, 46, 50 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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