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A Strange Mirror (The Musical Paradox) · Batteur64

EXERCISE 1 OF 84
Groove AF -- Part AF
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0 / 84 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AF
PART B
PART Q
PART AF
PART AF
PART AU
CHORUS
PART BJ
BREAK 3
19 groovesS21BJS17AFAU+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 6
JOIN · 16
LINK · 2
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Strange Mirror (The Musical Paradox) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
7:32
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-21, ride through bars 22-36, toms through bars 37-41, snare through bars 42-47, hi-hat through bars 48-49 and toms through bars 50-58, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    65
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |x-----------------------x--------x-----g--g-----|
BD |------------x-----x-----------------x--------x--|
A Strange Mirror (The Musical Paradox) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BJ -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AU -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-23 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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