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The Mask · Adrenalized

The Mask · Adrenalized
EXERCISE 18 OF 64
Fill at bar 8 and 49 (a small one)
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0 / 64 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AF
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFIAEAFC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Mask on drums

159 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-11, silence through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-42, snare through bars 43-44, hi-hat through bars 45-71 and toms through bars 72-75, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18 and 38-39, and 8 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 56 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 10-27 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-42 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Mask?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Mask hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Mask?

16 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED