MYSTERY · Turnstile

81 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 33-39, and 3 more places -- 56.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 164 BPM
MYSTERY · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 48, 55, 56 and 3 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 7 sections: 56 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is MYSTERY?

164 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 MYSTERY hard to play on drums?

42 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 MYSTERY?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 48, 55, 56 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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