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Mirage · Leprous

EXERCISE 20 OF 77
Groove AO -- Part AO
69 / 199 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART AO
CHORUS
PART AO
PART AQ
PART S12
PART AO
PART CI
OUTRO
15 groovesAOSCIHAQ+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mirage on drums

199 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 6:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
6:49
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-24, silence through bars 25-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-62, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 38, and 3 more places -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30                 31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |X-x-X-g-X-g-X-x-X-|g-X-g-X-g-X-g-X-|
SD |-gg-x--g-g-gx-gg--|-g--x----g-gx---|
FT |-----------------X|----------------|
BD |x--x--x---x--x--x-|x--x---gx----x--|
Mirage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 39, 40, 49, 50, 51, 52 and 64 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- S -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CI -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AL (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-25 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mirage?

122 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 Mirage hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 6:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Mirage?

16 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 39, 40, 49, 50, 51, 52 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED