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Sit & Mourn · Knocked Loose

EXERCISE 6 OF 41
Groove B
75 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART S10
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIAS10MS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sit & Mourn on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-45, snare through bars 46-49, hi-hat through bars 50-53 and snare through bars 54-68, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 46, and 13 more places -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-------x-x-x-|
Sit & Mourn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 21 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-29 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-29 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sit & Mourn?

140 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 Sit & Mourn hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sit & Mourn?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 21 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED