mutt · Leon Thomas

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10, 12-18 and 20-24, and 10 more places -- 62% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
MUTT · BARS 12-13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 5 sections: 67 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-57.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is mutt?

90 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 mutt hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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