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The Mists Of Time · John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers

The Mists Of Time · John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
EXERCISE 6 OF 28
Run B1 · Part B (bars 1-17)
54 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesFS5BEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Mists Of Time on drums

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

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
7:40
DIFFICULTY
31/100

ride through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-73 and silence through bars 74-109.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-xxx-x-x-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x---------x-|
The Mists Of Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-67 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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