Mind Games · John Lennon

69 bars, 4:11, at 66 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
66 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37-39, and 4 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 66 BPM
MIND GAMES · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 12 and 60.

LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 7 sections: 55 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-32.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
VERSE
5 groovesLODBSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mind Games?

66 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Mind Games 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Mind Games?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 12 and 60.

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