My Mother Destroyed The Nations · The Blind Cow

31 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
31
LENGTH
1:02
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-23 -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MY MOTHER DESTROYED THE NATIONS · BAR 16
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 7 and 11.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

31 bars across 5 sections: 22 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

CHORUS
PART F
PART H
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesDHIFS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Mother Destroyed The Nations?

120 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 My Mother Destroyed The Nations hard to play on drums?

45 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

31 bars, about 1:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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 My Mother Destroyed The Nations?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 7 and 11.

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