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Mukoku · My First Story

Mukoku · My First Story
EXERCISE 1 OF 98
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART AC
CHORUS 3
PART S20
OUTRO
17 groovesCACAGAS20+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mukoku on drums

203 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, snare through bars 35-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-66, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-18 and 65, and 7 more places -- 11.9% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Mukoku -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 16, 19, 20, 34, 38, 45 and 58 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-49 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-91 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mukoku?

195 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 Mukoku hard to play on drums?

55 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Mukoku?

26 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 16, 19, 20, 34, 38, 45 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED