Mother Europe · Ancient Rites

125 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-70, 72-78 and 80-86 -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MOTHER EUROPE · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 62, 120 and 121.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 120-121 · LANDS ON BAR 122 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 15 sections: 95 keep time, 3 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-86.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART O
PART S
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesGSODL+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mother Europe?

120 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 Mother Europe hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Mother Europe?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 62, 120 and 121.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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