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Momma Likes The Door Closed · Unto Others

EXERCISE 29 OF 55
Join Part D to Chorus 4 (bars 37-39)
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0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 4
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART D
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Momma Likes The Door Closed on drums

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.

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
95/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-26, ride through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-66, snare through bars 67-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-82, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----x-x---x---x-----|
Momma Likes The Door Closed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-37 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-51 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Z -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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