Breaking the mirror · Fit For A King

164 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7 and 11, and 20 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BREAKING THE MIRROR · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 18 and 46 more.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 11 sections: 81 keep time, 52 are fills, 23 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-29.

CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCAILRS8+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breaking the mirror?

186 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 Breaking the mirror hard to play on drums?

47 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Breaking the mirror?

23 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 18 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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