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Mudshovel · Staind

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove B -- Part B
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0 / 36 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART B
PART B
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABHDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mudshovel on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
64/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-72, snare through bars 73-80, kick and crashes through bars 81-100, hi-hat through bars 101-116 and snare through bars 117-124, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 29-35 and 45-47, and 2 more places -- 18.3% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-x--xx--x-----|
Mudshovel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 44, 60, 72, 75, 80, 100 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-76 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mudshovel?

107 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 Mudshovel hard to play on drums?

64 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Mudshovel?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 44, 60, 72, 75, 80, 100 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED