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Mirrors · Fit For An Autopsy

EXERCISE 13 OF 66
Groove G
42 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART T
PART AA
PART AN
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
12 groovesFANBTAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mirrors on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-54, toms through bars 55-57, ride through bars 58-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-65, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 33 and 36, and 7 more places -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------x-----------------------------------------|
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |------x-----------------------------------------|
Mirrors -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 26, 34, 46, 52, 53, 54 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mirrors?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Mirrors hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 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, 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 Mirrors?

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 26, 34, 46, 52, 53, 54 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED