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Mongoose · Fu Manchu

Mongoose · Fu Manchu
EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 73 BARS LIT
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHCFDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mongoose on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 3-21, toms through bars 22-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-79, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 42-49 and 54-56, and 6 more places -- 55.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 29, 53, 57, 65, 80, 81 and 9 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 -- H, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-66 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mongoose?

134 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 Mongoose 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Mongoose?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 29, 53, 57, 65, 80, 81 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED