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EXERCISE 17 OF 47
2-bar fill at bar 39
106 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Mirror's Truth on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, snare through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-30 and snare through bars 31-48, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-x-x-x-x-|
The Mirror's Truth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- M, H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-50 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 45-74 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-107 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED