Prison of the Mind · Fallujah

197 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-10, 13-16 and 20, and 7 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
PRISON OF THE MIND · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 11, 18, 43, 47, 52, 53 and 35 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 19 sections: 98 keep time, 41 are fills, 30 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-42.

CHORUS
PART M
PART P
PART AB
PART AD
PART AO
PART AX
PART BE
15 groovesBBEPADAX+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prison of the Mind?

240 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Prison of the Mind hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 29 sittings, about 26 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 Prison of the Mind?

22 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 11, 18, 43, 47, 52, 53 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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