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Breaking the mirror · Fit For A King

EXERCISE 1 OF 69
Groove C -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breaking the mirror on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-25, snare through bars 26-40, toms through bars 41-44 and snare through bars 45-51, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Breaking the mirror -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ, Y -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-69 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-133 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 89-113 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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