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Mustang Sally · Committments

Mustang Sally · Committments
EXERCISE 8 OF 18
Groove G
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0 / 18 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mustang Sally on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, snare through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-46, snare through bars 47-48, hi-hat through bars 49-70 and snare through bars 71-72, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 25-44 and 50-51, and 8 more places -- 69.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Mustang Sally -- 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 84, 96, 100, 108, 110, 111 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mustang Sally?

115 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 Mustang Sally hard to play on drums?

51 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Mustang Sally?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 84, 96, 100, 108, 110, 111 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED