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Mimic · Alternative Competition 2

EXERCISE 17 OF 27
4-bar fill at bar 41
54 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mimic on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-23, toms through bars 24-27, snare through bars 28-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-44, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |x-----------x-------------------|
BD |------x---------x-------x-------|
HF |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Mimic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- N -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-40 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-53 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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