Mother Superior · Coheed And Cambria

236 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 129 BPM, 5:29 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-36, 45 and 47, and 41 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 129 BPM
MOTHER SUPERIOR · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 132, 204 and 220.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 204 · LANDS ON BAR 205
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 220 · LANDS ON BAR 221
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

236 bars across 7 sections: 50 keep time, 4 are fills, 171 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-73.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDAEHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mother Superior?

129 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Superior hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

236 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Superior?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 132, 204 and 220.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 236 BARS ANALYSED
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