ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mouths Like Sidewinder Missiles on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 125 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 136
LENGTH: 4:08
DIFFICULTY: 74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-33, hi-hat through bars 34-42 and snare through bars 43-50, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                                                6
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x--------x-----x--x-----x-----|
BD |x--------x-----x-----x-----x-----x--x--x--------|x--------x-----x-----x--------x--------x--------|

Mouths Like Sidewinder Missiles -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Bars 11-19 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
Bars 31-63 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part P -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
and 9 more sittings after that.

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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