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Mourn · Fit For An Autopsy

EXERCISE 16 OF 63
Join Part E to Part J (bars 51-53)
112 / 206 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART J
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBEJS1AG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mourn on drums

206 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-52, hi-hat through bars 53-64, snare through bars 65-92 and ride through bars 93-104, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 9 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x--------g-g|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----|
Mourn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 40, 43, 46, 49, 52, 55 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 70-117 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 120-124 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Break 2 and Part Z -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mourn?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mourn hard to play on drums?

61 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?

206 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 40, 43, 46, 49, 52, 55 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED