Mindlock · Malevolent Creation

161 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 39-41 and 44, and 7 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
MINDLOCK · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 25, 33, 37 and 32 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 17 sections: 95 keep time, 38 are fills, 9 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

PART F
CHORUS
PART U
PART W
PART J
PART E
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesLUEJW+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mindlock?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mindlock hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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 Mindlock?

20 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 25, 33, 37 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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