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The Mission · 30 Seconds to Mars

EXERCISE 16 OF 29
Join Part K to Break (bars 48-50)
64 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, BREAK
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART K
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCGOKB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Mission on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-28, snare through bars 29-41, toms through bars 42-49 and silence through bars 50-53, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 10-11, and 10 more places -- 24.4% 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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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-|
The Mission -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 83 and 85.

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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-21 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-49 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-72 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Mission?

94 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 The Mission hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 The Mission?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 83 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED