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Mind Over Matter · Young The Giant

EXERCISE 14 OF 25
Join Chorus 2 to Part S5 (bars 63-65)
105 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART S5
CHORUS
PART S2
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAES5S2S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mind Over Matter on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, silence through bars 26-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-65, silence through bars 66-72 and ride through bars 73-79, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-38, 73-78 and 105-118, and 1 more place -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|----x-----x-----|
Mind Over Matter -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 64 and 104.

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 -- E, A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-65 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-105 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mind Over Matter?

152 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 Mind Over Matter hard to play on drums?

42 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Over Matter?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 64 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED