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Mote (Standard Tuning) [No AI] · Sonic Youth

EXERCISE 10 OF 15
Join Chorus to Part D (bars 34-36)
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0 / 15 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mote (Standard Tuning) [No AI] on drums

84 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 1:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-4, ride through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-12, ride through bars 13-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-19, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 10-12 and 17-19, and 6 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Mote (Standard Tuning) [No AI] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 9.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B, D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 32-55 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mote (Standard Tuning) [No AI]?

173 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 Mote (Standard Tuning) [No AI] hard to play on drums?

53 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Mote (Standard Tuning) [No AI]?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 9.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED