Mother Man · Atheist

36 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
1:20
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 24-26 and 28-31 -- 21.9% 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 MAN · BARS 24-25
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 11, 17, 21, 22, 23 and 3 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 21-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

36 bars across 4 sections: 19 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-9.

CHORUS
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesATQS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mother Man?

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 Man hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 1:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Mother Man?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 11, 17, 21, 22, 23 and 3 more.

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