21st Century Schizoid Man (Including "Mirrors") (AI) · King Crimson

226 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 75 BPM, 10:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
10:10
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46-56 -- 4.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
21ST CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN (INCLUDING "MIRRORS") (AI) · BARS 46-47
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 32 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 8-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

226 bars across 18 sections: 147 keep time, 38 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-63.

CHORUS
PART AD
PART AI
PART AI
PART BJ
PART CC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesCAIADCXCI+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 21st Century Schizoid Man (Including "Mirrors") (AI)?

75 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is 21st Century Schizoid Man (Including "Mirrors") (AI) hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 10:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 35 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 21st Century Schizoid Man (Including "Mirrors") (AI)?

14 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED
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