In The Minds Of Evil · Deicide

201 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-21, 23-24 and 26-27, and 12 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
IN THE MINDS OF EVIL · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

37 fills to learn, played 108 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 102 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

33 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

201 bars across 15 sections: 76 keep time, 108 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-86.

PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AI
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJBAIKAV+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Minds Of Evil?

195 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 In The Minds Of Evil hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 23 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 In The Minds Of Evil?

37 fills to learn, played 108 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 102 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
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