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Subways Of Your Mind · FEX

EXERCISE 13 OF 52
Groove F
63 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Subways Of Your Mind on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
65/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-70, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Subways Of Your Mind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D, E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 11-55 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-71 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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