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Natural Mystic · Bob Marley & The Wailers

EXERCISE 6 OF 12
Join Chorus to Part B (bars 35-37)
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0 / 12 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Natural Mystic on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
33/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-25, 27-28 and 31-35, and 10 more places -- 61.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------r-------|
BD |x---------------|
Natural Mystic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 111, 112 and 113.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 33-113 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Natural Mystic?

133 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 Natural Mystic hard to play on drums?

33 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 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 Natural Mystic?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 111, 112 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED