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Mirror Mirror · Blind Guardian

EXERCISE 23 OF 75
Groove O
153 / 226 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART Q
PART A
CHORUS
PART Q
PART N
PART AB
11 groovesKQNSA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 16
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mirror Mirror on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
84/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-5, toms through bars 6-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-18 and toms through bars 19-20, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-81 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Q and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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