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Many Mirrors · Alvvays

Many Mirrors · Alvvays
EXERCISE 11 OF 28
Fill at bar 38 and 64 (a small one)
88 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Many Mirrors on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-18, snare through bars 19-24, ride through bars 25-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-36, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Many Mirrors -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-25 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-62 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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