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Sadows Of My Mind · Aima

EXERCISE 19 OF 59
Join Part E to Chorus 4 (bars 65-67)
138 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS 4
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART S
PART Z
PART AE
CHORUS 6
PART AG
OUTRO
8 groovesBSEAGZ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sadows Of My Mind on drums

192 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-49, toms through bars 50-54, hi-hat through bars 55-76, toms through bars 77-78 and snare through bars 79-86, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 10-15 and 18-21, and 14 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Sadows Of My Mind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 58, 77, 78, 96, 108 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-66 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-79 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 77-92 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 5 and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sadows Of My Mind?

190 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 Sadows Of My Mind hard to play on drums?

57 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Sadows Of My Mind?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 58, 77, 78, 96, 108 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED