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House of mirrors · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 30 OF 75
Fill at bar 64
85 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
PART I
PART E
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play House of mirrors on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28 and ride through bars 29-40, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-------------|
House of mirrors -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- N, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-22 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-34 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-42 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-57 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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