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In My Mind · Blade and Bath

EXERCISE 23 OF 36
Groove O
85 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBLTS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In My Mind on drums

104 bars, 5:54, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
5:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-33, silence through bars 34-37, hi-hat through bars 38-53, snare through bars 54-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-87, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-32 and 38, and 9 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------------|
In My Mind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 37, 39, 47, 57, 71, 85 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 32-40 -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In My Mind?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is In My Mind hard to play on drums?

58 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 5:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in In My Mind?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 37, 39, 47, 57, 71, 85 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED