The Minds Eye · Haken

70 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 98 BPM, 4:06 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7 and 9, and 4 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
THE MINDS EYE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 26, 30, 32 and 6 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 8 sections: 24 keep time, 12 are fills and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-22.

CHORUS
PART S3
PART J
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS8CGJP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Minds Eye?

98 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Minds Eye hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 The Minds Eye?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 26, 30, 32 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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