MIRACLE MUSICAL · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in The Mind Electric

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.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
21/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE MIND ELECTRIC · BAR 46

It is played on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 23 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how often it moves around the kit.

The whole song is 21 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 113 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 113, 131 and 150 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does The Mind Electric use?

A one-bar groove on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 150 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 41.7% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 45-46, 49-55 and 57-72. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.

Is the beat in The Mind Electric hard?

23 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED