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The Mollusk · Ween

EXERCISE 4 OF 13
Groove C
88 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Mollusk on drums

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

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-52 and ride through bars 53-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- A, B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Bars 24-88 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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