Mother Mother (v1) [zAIz] · Tracy Bonham

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 2:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 5 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
MOTHER MOTHER (V1) [ZAIZ] · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 15, 17, 19, 20 and 11 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 5 sections: 19 keep time, 17 are fills, 7 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-34.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCOS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mother Mother (v1) [zAIz]?

88 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 Mother (v1) [zAIz] hard to play on drums?

63 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Mother Mother (v1) [zAIz]?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 15, 17, 19, 20 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 55 BARS ANALYSED
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