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Blank Minds · 《your name》

Blank Minds · 《your name》
EXERCISE 19 OF 47
Groove K -- Part K
135 / 205 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART S
BREAK 2
OUTRO
11 groovesDKSS14P+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blank Minds on drums

205 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40, ride through bars 41-43 and snare through bars 44-64, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 45-60 and 89-104, and 1 more place -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Blank Minds -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 36, 80 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-129 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-45 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blank Minds?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blank Minds hard to play on drums?

62 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Blank Minds?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 36, 80 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED