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Mortercheyn · Hellripper

EXERCISE 18 OF 75
Fill at bar 50 (a small one)
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0 / 75 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEADS1AAK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mortercheyn on drums

182 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 5:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-33, snare through bars 34-35, hi-hat through bars 36-80 and toms through bars 81-90, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 27-32 and 37, and 16 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Mortercheyn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 25, 26, 33, 34, 35, 42 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- E, AI -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 15-91 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mortercheyn?

122 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 Mortercheyn hard to play on drums?

59 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Mortercheyn?

24 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 25, 26, 33, 34, 35, 42 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED