← SONGS

my mind is a mountain · Deftones

EXERCISE 10 OF 19
Fill at bar 30 (a small one)
40 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
PART A
PART D
PART F
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesS6DFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play my mind is a mountain on drums

74 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 164 BPM, 2:42 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
38/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-50 and silence through bars 51-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24 and 41-47 -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---x-----x-----------x-|
my mind is a mountain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 25, 30, 40 and 48.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is my mind is a mountain?

164 BPM, in 6/4, 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 mountain hard to play on drums?

38 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 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 mountain?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 25, 30, 40 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED