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Mordecai · Between The Buried And Me

EXERCISE 1 OF 95
Groove BC -- Part BC
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0 / 95 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART BC, CHORUS, OUTRO
PART B
PART B
PART E
PART U
PART AE
PART AN
PART BC
CHORUS
OUTRO
14 groovesBFBUEAE+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mordecai on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
88/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-27, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    105
    1...............2...............3...............
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-------x---------------x-------x---|
Mordecai -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- BC -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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