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Parallel Minds · Conception

Parallel Minds · Conception
EXERCISE 3 OF 33
Groove D -- Part D (a two-bar phrase)
89 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHDAKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Parallel Minds on drums

154 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
63/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-38, snare through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-75, snare through bars 76-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-124, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-32, 50-69 and 103-118 -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x----x--x---|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x-xx--xx--xx-xxx|
Parallel Minds -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 36, 48, 73, 85, 122, 142 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-36 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-49 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-89 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-149 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Parallel Minds?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Parallel Minds hard to play on drums?

63 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Parallel Minds?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 36, 48, 73, 85, 122, 142 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED