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Mouth Of Kala · Gojira

EXERCISE 13 OF 55
Groove I -- Part I
108 / 204 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS 2, PART I
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART AI
BREAK 3
9 groovesBS11IAIG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mouth Of Kala on drums

204 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 6:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
6:59
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-33, snare through bars 34-57, hi-hat through bars 58-75, snare through bars 76-110 and hi-hat through bars 111-135, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 14-17 and 19-32, and 4 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 33, 34, 38, 46, 52, 53 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-88 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-87 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mouth Of Kala?

137 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 Mouth Of Kala 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 6:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Mouth Of Kala?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 33, 34, 38, 46, 52, 53 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED