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What A Mess · Anakreenskyrider

EXERCISE 25 OF 58
Join Chorus to Part N (bars 46-48)
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0 / 58 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART N
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesINSUC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What A Mess on drums

243 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
8:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-48, snare through bars 49-65, hi-hat through bars 66-106, snare through bars 107-122 and hi-hat through bars 123-146, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-65, 107-108 and 111-112, and 4 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    50               51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|g-g-g-g-gggggggg|
BD |x-----------x---|x-------------x-|
What A Mess -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 24, 32, 33, 41, 73, 74 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- N, I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-25 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-91 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 66-163 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is What A Mess?

120 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 What A Mess hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

243 bars, about 8:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 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 What A Mess?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 24, 32, 33, 41, 73, 74 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 243 BARS ANALYSED