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The Mirror Man · Blade and Bath

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove C -- Part C
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Mirror Man on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, ride through bars 29-43, hi-hat through bars 44-52, snare through bars 53-60 and silence through bars 61-68, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
The Mirror Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-43 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-61 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 76-91 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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