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Mummy Dust · Ghost

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART L
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBLDJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mummy Dust on drums

163 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-38, ride through bars 39-44 and toms through bars 45-46, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 78-83 and 133-160 -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |XXX-X-X-X-X-X-X-|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-------x-------|
Mummy Dust -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 45, 84, 107, 115, 119, 161 and 2 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-92 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mummy Dust?

160 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 Mummy Dust hard to play on drums?

47 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Mummy Dust?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 45, 84, 107, 115, 119, 161 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED