House of mirrors · Arch Enemy

153 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 73-79 and 137-143 -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 172 BPM
HOUSE OF MIRRORS · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 36, 39, 48 and 17 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 21 sections: 86 keep time, 23 are fills, 11 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-101.

COUNT-IN
PART I
PART I
PART T
PART V
PART AI
PART AL
12 groovesNVIALD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is House of mirrors?

172 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 House of mirrors hard to play on drums?

60 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 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 House of mirrors?

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 36, 39, 48 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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