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EXERCISE 36 OF 66
2-bar fill at bar 46
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0 / 66 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART B
PART E
PART K
PART H
PART E
PART V
OUTRO
8 groovesACEVHK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Mixture on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 3-88, toms through bars 89-90 and snare through bars 91-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 15-17 and 39-41, and 1 more place -- 14.9% 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---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxx-x-x-xxxxx|
The Mixture -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 14, 18, 20 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-22 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-42 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Mixture?

110 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 The Mixture hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Mixture?

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 14, 18, 20 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED