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Faculties of The Mind · Butterfingers

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 30 PASSED · 53 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Faculties of The Mind on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-70, snare through bars 71-72, hi-hat through bars 73-102, snare through bars 103-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-110, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-xx----x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|x-------x-x---x-|
Faculties of The Mind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, G -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-41 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-61 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-71 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 76-133 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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