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Mother Superior · Coheed And Cambria

EXERCISE 16 OF 25
Fill at bar 132 (a small one)
168 / 236 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDAEHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mother Superior on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-19, ride through bars 20-37, snare through bars 38-44, ride through bars 45-60, hi-hat through bars 61-74 and ride through bars 75-124, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
RD |----x---x---|
BD |x-----------|
Mother Superior -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, F, H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-64 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 61-182 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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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