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Mirror Rim · Heaven pierce her

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART P
PART S
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCS1TPAF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mirror Rim on drums

112 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 2:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-45, snare through bars 46-68, hi-hat through bars 69-87, snare through bars 88-95 and ride through bars 96-102, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-34, 37 and 45, and 4 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x---x-------x---x---|
BD |x-----x---x-x-x-------x-|
Mirror Rim -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 36, 38, 44, 46, 48, 49 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-63 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mirror Rim?

150 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Mirror Rim hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Rim?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 36, 38, 44, 46, 48, 49 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED