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Mortal Reminder · Pentakill

Mortal Reminder · Pentakill
EXERCISE 28 OF 66
Groove R (a two-bar phrase)
104 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART V
PART Z
OUTRO 2
8 groovesETZCK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mortal Reminder on drums

155 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-20, hi-hat through bars 21-68, snare through bars 69-80, hi-hat through bars 81-112 and kick and crashes through bars 113-118, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 7 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53               54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
SD |----------------|x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-x-|--x-x-----x-x---|
Mortal Reminder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 36, 40 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- Z, E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 105-139 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-26 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mortal Reminder?

167 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Mortal Reminder hard to play on drums?

56 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Mortal Reminder?

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 36, 40 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED