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Mindlock · Malevolent Creation

EXERCISE 6 OF 82
Groove J -- Part J
44 / 161 BARS COVERED
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PART F
CHORUS
PART J
PART U
PART W
PART H
PART J
PART E
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesLUEJW+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mindlock on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
81/100

toms through bars 2-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-84 and kick and crashes through bars 85-86, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 8-21 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-98 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-82 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and the Break 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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