Mimic · Alternative Competition 2

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-39, 45-52 and 58-61 -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
MIMIC · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 22, 27, 41, 42, 43 and 3 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 41-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 68
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 9 sections: 49 keep time, 9 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-18.

PART G
PART H
PART E
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesNGEHRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mimic?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Mimic hard to play on drums?

62 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Mimic?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 22, 27, 41, 42, 43 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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