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Mind-Spun · Not Animals As Leaders

EXERCISE 26 OF 38
Run B2 · Part B (bars 55-70)
67 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART AF
BREAK
8 groovesFS9BAFS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mind-Spun on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, toms through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-28 and toms through bars 29-36, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 29-31 -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17                     18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e
CC |x---x---x---x---x-----|x---x---x---x---x---x-----|
SD |--------x--x------x---|--------x--x------x--x----|
FT |---------------------x|------------------------xx|
BD |xxxxxxxx-xx-xxxxxx-xx-|xxxxxxxx-xx-xxxxxx-xx-xx--|
Mind-Spun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-55 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part AF -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part AF -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part AN -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mind-Spun?

145 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-Spun hard to play on drums?

58 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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-Spun?

8 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED