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Qwerty · Mushroomhead

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove D -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBDFHE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Qwerty on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, snare through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-25, snare through bars 26-27 and silence through bars 28-31, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 35-38 and 58-62 -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxxxxxxx|
Qwerty -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 22, 25, 31, 41, 42, 43 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-42 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Qwerty?

77 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Qwerty hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Qwerty?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 22, 25, 31, 41, 42, 43 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED