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Mordial · Car Bomb

EXERCISE 23 OF 73
Run T1 · Part T (bars 21-36)
63 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
PART K
PART T
CHORUS
PART AN
PART AT
PART BA
PART S15
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
17 groovesAFS15S18ATT+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mordial on drums

164 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 4:50 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-24, snare through bars 25-34, toms through bars 35-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-64, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-40, 42 and 44-45, and 4 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38             39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e
CC |x-------------|--------------|
HH |----o---o---o-|--o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----|----x---------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-|x-------x---x-|
Mordial -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 22 and 63 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- AF -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BA, AN -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-36 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-138 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 45-51 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part AN and Part AT -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part AN and Part AT -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mordial?

160 BPM, in 7/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mordial hard to play on drums?

49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Mordial?

16 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 22 and 63 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED