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Mortal Admonishment · Sanguisugabogg

EXERCISE 8 OF 119
Fill at bar 1 (a small one)
42 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 119 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE BREAK
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 5
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mortal Admonishment on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-34, snare through bars 35-47, hi-hat through bars 48-49, snare through bars 50-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-73, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Mortal Admonishment -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 90 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 -- O, AG -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-10 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 8-15 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part T -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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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