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mirror------------> · test##

EXERCISE 5 OF 32
Fill at bar 20, 28, 68 and 3 more (a small one)
68 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAEJOL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play mirror------------> on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 6:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
54/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-46, snare through bars 47-54, ride through bars 55-64, hi-hat through bars 65-94 and snare through bars 95-102, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-6, 9-14 and 49-54, and 4 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------x-------|--------x-------|
RD |----------x-x-x-|------------x-x-|
HH |o---o-----------|o---o-----------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x---------|--x-x-x---x-----|
mirror------------> -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 64, 68, 76 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- A, E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-137 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-112 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is mirror------------>?

90 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 mirror------------> hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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------------>?

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 64, 68, 76 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED