The Mists Of Time · John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers

109 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 85 BPM, 7:40 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
7:40
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-28 and 31-36, and 5 more places -- 47.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
THE MISTS OF TIME · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 7, 13, 15, 17, 29, 37 and 7 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 5 sections: 57 keep time, 13 are fills and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-28.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesFS5BEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Mists Of Time?

85 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Mists Of Time hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 7:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Mists Of Time?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 7, 13, 15, 17, 29, 37 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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