The Mollusk · Ween

93 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 111 BPM, 2:31 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 25-40 and 49-52, and 2 more places -- 59.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 111 BPM
THE MOLLUSK · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 92 and 93.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 92-93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 9 sections: 83 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Mollusk?

111 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 Mollusk hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Mollusk?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 92 and 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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