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Mind · System of a Down

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove F -- Chorus 2
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART V
OUTRO 2
13 groovesFBGZV+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mind on drums

120 bars, 5:30, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-36, hi-hat through bars 37-62, ride through bars 63-66, hi-hat through bars 67-70 and ride through bars 71-73, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-40, 49-55 and 67-70, and 1 more place -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-x-------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x-----x---x-x---|
Mind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 36, 61, 66, 106 and 110.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-71 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mind?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 36, 61, 66, 106 and 110.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED