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Mongoloid · Devo

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove D -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS1GKBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mongoloid on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-13, snare through bars 14-16, toms through bars 17-49, hi-hat through bars 50-59, toms through bars 60-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-83, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-48, 61-75 and 88-102, and 3 more places -- 63.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |x---x---x-x-x---|x---x-x---x-x-x-|
FT |x---x---x-x-x---|x---x-x---x-x---|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---|x---x-x---x-x-X-|
HF |x---x---x-x-x---|x---x-x---x-x-x-|
Mongoloid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 17, 49, 59, 60, 76, 78 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 14-51 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 60-88 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mongoloid?

149 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 Mongoloid hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Mongoloid?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 17, 49, 59, 60, 76, 78 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED