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MOLLY · Ecca Vandal

MOLLY · Ecca Vandal
EXERCISE 3 OF 51
Groove C
52 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART N
PART Q
9 groovesEBQNS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play MOLLY on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
44/100

toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-30, snare through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-50, snare through bars 51-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-85, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 19 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
MOLLY -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 31, 32, 44, 51, 52, 59 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 92-103 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is MOLLY?

120 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 MOLLY hard to play on drums?

44 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in MOLLY?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 31, 32, 44, 51, 52, 59 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED