Momma Likes The Door Closed · Unto Others

90 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 10-16 and 31-33, and 3 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
MOMMA LIKES THE DOOR CLOSED · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 17, 19, 21 and 14 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 15 sections: 52 keep time, 20 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-61.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART K
PART Z
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDKZAE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Momma Likes The Door Closed?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Momma Likes The Door Closed hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 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 Momma Likes The Door Closed?

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 17, 19, 21 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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