Mental Hopscotch · Missing Persons

135 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-31, 41-47 and 49-63, and 1 more place -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
MENTAL HOPSCOTCH · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 48, 64, 88, 104, 127, 128 and 1 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 127-128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 5 sections: 122 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-47.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBHLAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mental Hopscotch?

170 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 Mental Hopscotch hard to play on drums?

63 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Mental Hopscotch?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 48, 64, 88, 104, 127, 128 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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