Subways Of Your Mind · FEX

105 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-15 and 17, and 9 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 133 BPM
SUBWAYS OF YOUR MIND · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 22, 23, 24 and 21 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 8 sections: 66 keep time, 27 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-39.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDEWAUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Subways Of Your Mind?

133 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 Subways Of Your Mind hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Subways Of Your Mind?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 22, 23, 24 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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