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Of Mind - Exile · Tesseract

EXERCISE 16 OF 92
Fill at bar 17, 23, 29 and 35
92 / 309 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART K
PART B
PART K
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AX
PART S16
BREAK
17 groovesS20UANKO+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 24
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 18
LINK · 12
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Of Mind - Exile on drums

309 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 8:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
309
LENGTH
8:46
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-87, ride through bars 88-99, snare through bars 100-159, ride through bars 160-162, hi-hat through bars 163-164 and ride through bars 165-190, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 64-65, 67 and 70-71, and 9 more places -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64               65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
SD |----------------|----x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x-----x-----x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
Of Mind - Exile -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 23, 27, 29 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- R, O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Of Mind - Exile?

180 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 Of Mind - Exile hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

309 bars, about 8:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 23 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 Of Mind - Exile?

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 23, 27, 29 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 309 BARS ANALYSED