The Mirror Tells All · Alpha Current

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-21, 38-53 and 60-67 -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THE MIRROR TELLS ALL · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 9 sections: 59 keep time, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-37.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFEBIS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Mirror Tells All?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Mirror Tells All hard to play on drums?

56 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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