A Strange Mirror (The Musical Paradox) · Batteur64

266 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 7:32 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
7:32
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-70 and 96-111 -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
A STRANGE MIRROR (THE MUSICAL PARADOX) · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 21, 25, 29, 33, 47 and 21 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

279 bars across 21 sections: 129 keep time, 27 are fills, 13 are stops and 82 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-112.

PART B
PART Q
PART AF
PART AU
CHORUS
PART BJ
BREAK 3
19 groovesS21BJS17AFAU+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Strange Mirror (The Musical Paradox)?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 A Strange Mirror (The Musical Paradox) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

266 bars, about 7:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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 A Strange Mirror (The Musical Paradox)?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 21, 25, 29, 33, 47 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 266 BARS ANALYSED
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