Mirror Mirror · Blind Guardian

226 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 113-119 and 145-147, and 3 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
MIRROR MIRROR · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24 and 27 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

226 bars across 25 sections: 147 keep time, 33 are fills, 20 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-55.

PART A
CHORUS
PART N
PART AB
11 groovesKQNSA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mirror Mirror?

180 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 Mirror Mirror hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Mirror Mirror?

9 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED
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