Faculties of The Mind · Butterfingers

141 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 6 more places -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 137 BPM
FACULTIES OF THE MIND · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 39, 40, 52 and 17 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 11 sections: 95 keep time, 23 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-132.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBKGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Faculties of The Mind?

137 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Faculties of The Mind hard to play on drums?

55 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 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 Faculties of The Mind?

5 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 39, 40, 52 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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