The Mirror's Truth · In Flames

132 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-48, 55-56 and 71-77, and 7 more places -- 39.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
THE MIRROR'S TRUTH · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 18, 26, 30, 39, 40, 60 and 12 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 69-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 15 sections: 99 keep time, 18 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

PART F
PART H
PART H
CHORUS
PART N
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMHFNC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Mirror's Truth?

180 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 Mirror's Truth hard to play on drums?

62 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Mirror's Truth?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 18, 26, 30, 39, 40, 60 and 12 more.

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