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Mountain Climbing · Joe Bonamassa

EXERCISE 23 OF 54
2-bar fill at bar 54 and 1 more
92 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART P
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART X
PART P
OUTRO
6 groovesBCPET+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mountain Climbing on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 5:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-8, snare through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-37, snare through bars 38-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-53, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 20-24 and 27-29, and 12 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 26, 46, 54 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-16 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-38 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-105 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part P and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mountain Climbing?

94 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 Climbing hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Mountain Climbing?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 26, 46, 54 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED