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Mud · Bury The Witness

EXERCISE 33 OF 40
Join Chorus 4 to Outro (bars 97-99)
109 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4, OUTRO
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesICEKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mud on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-23, snare through bars 24-34, hi-hat through bars 35-98, ride through bars 99-106 and hi-hat through bars 107-114.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 51-56, and 2 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Mud -- 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 1, 2, 10, 18, 20, 22 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-38 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 97-105 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mud?

120 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 Mud hard to play on drums?

53 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Mud?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 20, 22 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED