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Mr. Moustache · Nirvana

EXERCISE 18 OF 39
Groove I
123 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
OUTRO
6 groovesCFJAS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mr. Moustache on drums

137 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-52, snare through bars 53-60, hi-hat through bars 61-104, snare through bars 105-120 and silence through bars 121-122, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-19, and 18 more places -- 58.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Mr. Moustache -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 28, 32 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-46 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 55-114 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 105-125 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mr. Moustache?

177 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 Mr. Moustache hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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. Moustache?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 28, 32 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED