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Mogwai Fear Satan · Mogwai

EXERCISE 1 OF 89
Groove AL -- Chorus
0 / 438 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 109 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART B
PART Q
PART S
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
15 groovesALQAJNB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 19
LINK · 17
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mogwai Fear Satan on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
438
LENGTH
15:57
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-36, ride through bars 37-245, snare through bars 246-256, toms through bars 257-421 and snare through bars 422-438.

The beat

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.

    272
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
FT |x-xxxxx-xxxxxxxx|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Mogwai Fear Satan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- AL, AJ -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-89 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 52-206 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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