Mother · Pink Floyd

42 bars, 2:46, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
42
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 20-22 and 25, and 2 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 69 BPM
MOTHER · BAR 21
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 14, 18, 19, 23, 31 and 2 more.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

42 bars across 5 sections: 22 keep time, 8 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-28.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesGPCS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mother?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Mother hard to play on drums?

58 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

42 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Mother?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 14, 18, 19, 23, 31 and 2 more.

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