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Mouthful Of Poison · Kittie

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove E -- Part E
0 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT
PART B
PART D
PART F
PART E
PART I
PART E
PART F
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJSEFD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mouthful Of Poison on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-18, snare through bars 19-38, hi-hat through bars 39-44, snare through bars 45-52 and silence through bars 53-54, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 26 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-x-x-------------------------|
Mouthful Of Poison -- 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 18, 109 and 113.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mouthful Of Poison?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Mouthful Of Poison 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Mouthful Of Poison?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 109 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED