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Mundo · IV OF SPADES

EXERCISE 7 OF 35
Fill at bar 26 (a small one)
57 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBUKPEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mundo on drums

92 bars, 5:15, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-72 and ride through bars 73-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-25, 35-36 and 39-43, and 1 more place -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 37, 38, 44, 61, 62 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, U, F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 58-74 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-80 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mundo?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Mundo hard to play on drums?

48 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Mundo?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 37, 38, 44, 61, 62 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED