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Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm · Crash Test Dummies

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm · Crash Test Dummies
EXERCISE 17 OF 24
Run I1 · Part I (bars 36-40)
59 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBEIS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-25, ride through bars 26-30, hi-hat through bars 31-50, ride through bars 51-68 and silence through bars 69-70.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-63 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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