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Mr. Big · Free

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove M -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBMJUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mr. Big on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-112 and kick and crashes through bars 113-114.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 63-98 and 101-102 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    71               72
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |---x-------x----|--xx------xx----|
Mr. Big -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 62, 109, 110, 111, 112 and 114.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- M, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-66 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mr. Big?

80 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 Mr. Big hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Mr. Big?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 62, 109, 110, 111, 112 and 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED