Mental Central Dialog · Lifelover

108 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-33 and 50-73 -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 147 BPM
MENTAL CENTRAL DIALOG · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 6 sections: 53 keep time, 34 are stops and 19 are silent.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBCS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mental Central Dialog?

147 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 Mental Central Dialog hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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