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my mind is a mountainㅤ · Deftones

EXERCISE 9 OF 29
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-17)
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0 / 29 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART D
PART F
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJDFAS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play my mind is a mountainㅤ on drums

147 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 162 BPM, 2:43 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
41/100

snare through bars 1-11, toms through bars 12-16, hi-hat through bars 17-53, silence through bars 54-56, snare through bars 57-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-98, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-49, 81-95 and 133-146 -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
BD |x---x-----x-|
my mind is a mountainㅤ -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 12, 34, 50, 60, 80 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-81 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 64-99 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is my mind is a mountainㅤ?

162 BPM, in 3/4, 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 my mind is a mountainㅤ hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 my mind is a mountainㅤ?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 12, 34, 50, 60, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED