Mouthpiece · Pth

208 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9, 11-13 and 15-16, and 4 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
MOUTHPIECE · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 111 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 105 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 16 sections: 74 keep time, 111 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 148-159.

CHORUS
PART AC
PART AT
CHORUS 3
PART AD
PART BT
PART BU
PART BX
13 groovesHADACATBU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mouthpiece?

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

Is Mouthpiece hard to play on drums?

53 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?

208 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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 Mouthpiece?

30 fills to learn, played 111 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 105 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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