Mortal Admonishment · Sanguisugabogg

188 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 32 and 34, and 9 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
MORTAL ADMONISHMENT · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 7, 9, 25, 26, 27 and 56 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 21 sections: 87 keep time, 64 are fills, 16 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 150-163.

PART F
CHORUS
PART AD
PART AG
PART AQ
PART AY
CHORUS 2
17 groovesOAGAYFAD+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mortal Admonishment?

145 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Mortal Admonishment hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 29 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Mortal Admonishment?

28 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 7, 9, 25, 26, 27 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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