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Mountain At My Gates · Foals

EXERCISE 15 OF 27
Run E2 · Chorus 2 (bars 39-53)
61 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEKFBM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mountain At My Gates on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-13, hi-hat through bars 14-62, silence through bars 63-65, kick and crashes through bars 66-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-86, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-33, 42-49 and 51-53 -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--g-g--x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
Mountain At My Gates -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 41 and 61.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- E, K -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-84 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part K and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mountain At My Gates?

104 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Mountain At My Gates hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Mountain At My Gates?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 41 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED