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This Mortal Coil · Carcass

EXERCISE 2 OF 32
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
70 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART M
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEAMFKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Mortal Coil on drums

177 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
77/100

ride through bars 1-99, hi-hat through bars 100-134, ride through bars 135-175 and toms through bars 176-177.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-34, 43-65 and 76-83, and 1 more place -- 39.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--xx--xx--xx--xx|
This Mortal Coil -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 13, 36, 37, 38, 40 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-92 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 98-119 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 119-138 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is This Mortal Coil?

187 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is This Mortal Coil hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 This Mortal Coil?

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 13, 36, 37, 38, 40 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED