Mentally Blind · Death

155 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 209 BPM, 4:01 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
209 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-12 and 97-103 -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 209 BPM
MENTALLY BLIND · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 15, 17, 19, 21, 31 and 8 more.

LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 13 sections: 74 keep time, 14 are fills, 4 are stops and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-94.

PART B
PART F
PART P
PART U
PART F
PART AK
PART AN
PART B
OUTRO 2
11 groovesS13BFANU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mentally Blind?

209 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mentally Blind hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 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 Mentally Blind?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 15, 17, 19, 21, 31 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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