Mogwai Fear Satan · Mogwai

438 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 15:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
438
LENGTH
15:57
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 269-280, 282-364 and 376-388, and 1 more place -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
MOGWAI FEAR SATAN · BAR 272
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 36 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 36-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 180 · LANDS ON BAR 181 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

438 bars across 23 sections: 356 keep time, 42 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 270-364.

PART B
PART Q
PART S
CHORUS
OUTRO
15 groovesALQAJNB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mogwai Fear Satan?

110 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 Mogwai Fear Satan hard to play on drums?

53 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

438 bars, about 15:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Mogwai Fear Satan?

10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 438 BARS ANALYSED
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