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The Minds Eye · Haken

EXERCISE 6 OF 32
Fill at bar 8 (a small one)
12 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Minds Eye on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 3-11, silence through bars 12-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, ride through bars 23-30, snare through bars 31-38 and ride through bars 39-40, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x---x-------x---x-x-----x---x-------x---x-|
The Minds Eye -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-27 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-50 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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