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Mind Decaying · Dares Devil

EXERCISE 3 OF 85
Groove BC -- Part BC
22 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AY, PART BC
PART B
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AK
PART AY
PART BC
OUTRO
15 groovesPBCAWAKB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 17
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mind Decaying on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
80/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, toms through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-29, snare through bars 30-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-74, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36 and 54-60 -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Mind Decaying -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 3, 5, 11, 12, 66, 70 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- P -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AW -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BC -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mind Decaying?

120 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 Mind Decaying hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 26 sittings, about 24 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 Mind Decaying?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 3, 5, 11, 12, 66, 70 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED