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The Mirror Tells All · Alpha Current

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove F -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Mirror Tells All on drums

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

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-23, hi-hat through bars 24-37, ride through bars 38-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-59, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- F, E -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 1-17 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-55 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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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