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The Mask · Chat Pile

EXERCISE 22 OF 45
Run G1 · Chorus (bars 34-66)
82 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGQAEAB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Mask on drums

137 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 152 BPM, 2:51 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-31, snare through bars 32-48, hi-hat through bars 49-88, snare through bars 89-105, hi-hat through bars 106-128 and snare through bars 129-137.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56, 58 and 60, and 6 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Mask -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 57, 61, 73, 110, 111 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-91 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Y and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Mask?

152 BPM, in 3/4, 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 The Mask hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 The Mask?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 57, 61, 73, 110, 111 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED