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Mortal After All · Architects

EXERCISE 11 OF 73
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
52 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART T
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLAZAAH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mortal After All on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-72, hi-hat through bars 73-87, silence through bars 88-89, snare through bars 90-106 and silence through bars 107-109, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 17 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x---|
Mortal After All -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- L, A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-27 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-76 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mortal After All?

154 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 After All hard to play on drums?

51 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 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 Mortal After All?

17 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED