Many Mirrors · Alvvays

105 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18 and 26, and 25 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 143 BPM
MANY MIRRORS · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 24, 38, 64 and 100.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 10 sections: 84 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-94.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCJDES1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Many Mirrors?

143 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 Many Mirrors hard to play on drums?

52 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Many Mirrors?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 24, 38, 64 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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