The Mirror Man · Blade and Bath

101 bars, 5:46, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-20 and 45-51, and 2 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
THE MIRROR MAN · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 36, 52, 56, 68 and 11 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 12 sections: 54 keep time, 17 are fills, 8 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesECVIS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Mirror Man?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Mirror Man hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Mirror Man?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 36, 52, 56, 68 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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