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Mimi · Wisp

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBFS1DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mimi on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-45, ride through bars 46-48, hi-hat through bars 49-57 and ride through bars 58-66, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-21, 43-45 and 49-57, and 1 more place -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 25, 41 and 89.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 20-33 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-61 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mimi?

84 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 Mimi hard to play on drums?

38 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 Mimi?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 25, 41 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED