Mirrors · Justin Timberlake

306 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 7:54 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
306
LENGTH
7:54
DIFFICULTY
8/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-86, 88 and 97-129, and 15 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 155 BPM
MIRRORS · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 38, 90 and 94.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

306 bars across 9 sections: 198 keep time, 4 are fills, 25 are stops and 76 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 221-306.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
OUTRO
6 groovesDABS6S8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mirrors?

155 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 Mirrors hard to play on drums?

8 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

306 bars, about 7:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Mirrors?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 38, 90 and 94.

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