Mordecai · Between The Buried And Me

148 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 5:11 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 105-106, 108-110 and 122, and 4 more places -- 6.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
MORDECAI · BAR 105
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 7, 13, 19, 21, 28 and 22 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 16 sections: 94 keep time, 29 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-51.

PART B
PART B
PART E
PART U
PART AE
PART AN
CHORUS
OUTRO
14 groovesBFBUEAE+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mordecai?

100 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Mordecai hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Mordecai?

19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 7, 13, 19, 21, 28 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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