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EXERCISE 28 OF 54
Fill at bar 57 (a small one)
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PART S3
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO 2
6 groovesES3NTA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To Build A Mountain on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
43/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-22 and toms through bars 23-33, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-14, 17-22 and 34-36, and 9 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|--x-x-----------|
To Build A Mountain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, T -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-86 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part S3 and the Chorus 2 -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part A -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is To Build A Mountain?

122 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 To Build A Mountain hard to play on drums?

43 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 To Build A Mountain?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED