Mouths Like Sidewinder Missiles · fall of troy

136 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 27-29, and 4 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
MOUTHS LIKE SIDEWINDER MISSILES · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 54 and 118.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 18 sections: 100 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-108.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART S11
PART P
PART Q
PART R
PART V
PART X
OUTRO
13 groovesCJACVG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mouths Like Sidewinder Missiles?

125 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 Mouths Like Sidewinder Missiles hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 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 Mouths Like Sidewinder Missiles?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 54 and 118.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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