The Mule · Deep Purple

171 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-53, 58-88 and 98-141, and 5 more places -- 78.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 137 BPM
THE MULE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 54, 55 and 16 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 7-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 54-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 142-143 · LANDS ON BAR 144 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 5 sections: 143 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-141.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGCMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Mule?

137 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 Mule hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Mule?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 54, 55 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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