Mineral · Atheist

191 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 13 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
MINERAL · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 22 and 22 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 10 sections: 150 keep time, 28 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 142-168.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCJADTM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mineral?

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

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Mineral?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 22 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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