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Mowgli · Veil Of Maya

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove D -- Part D
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0 / 33 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART E, OUTRO
PART D
PART E
PART J
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesS7EDJI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mowgli on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-36, toms through bars 37-40, snare through bars 41-95 and silence through bars 96-98, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-16, 19-20 and 39-40, and 1 more place -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
T2 |x-x--------x---x|
FT |xg-ggxxx--x-x-x-|
Mowgli -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 22, 23, 26, 28, 34, 35 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D, E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-54 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 46 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mowgli?

150 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 Mowgli hard to play on drums?

54 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Mowgli?

6 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 22, 23, 26, 28, 34, 35 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED