The Mind is the First to Rot · meech

249 bars at 254 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
254 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
249
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 13-19, and 5 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 254 BPM
THE MIND IS THE FIRST TO ROT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 36, 55 and 17 more.

LOOP · 254 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 254 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 254 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 254 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

249 bars across 27 sections: 176 keep time, 24 are fills, 11 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 208-222.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART S
PART AC
16 groovesAHSEAC+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Mind is the First to Rot?

254 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 The Mind is the First to Rot hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

249 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 The Mind is the First to Rot?

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 36, 55 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 249 BARS ANALYSED
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