The Mind Electric · Miracle Musical

75 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
21/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-46, 49-55 and 57-72 -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE MIND ELECTRIC · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 7 sections: 52 keep time, 1 is a fill, 4 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-14.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART B
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesEBS5CS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Mind Electric?

150 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 The Mind Electric hard to play on drums?

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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 The Mind Electric?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

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