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More Than I Could Chew · Mastodon

EXERCISE 32 OF 60
Fill at bar 78 and 86 (a small one)
100 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART O
PART Z
7 groovesBOZES1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play More Than I Could Chew on drums

142 bars, 11:10, at 53 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
53 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
11:10
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-44, hi-hat through bars 45-48, snare through bars 49-74, ride through bars 75-78 and snare through bars 79-88, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-31 and 41-47, and 2 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x---x--x--x---x-|--x-x--x--x--x--|
More Than I Could Chew -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 16, 32, 34, 35, 36, 38 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, Z -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part O -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is More Than I Could Chew?

53 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is More Than I Could Chew hard to play on drums?

46 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 11:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 More Than I Could Chew?

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 16, 32, 34, 35, 36, 38 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED