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Theory of mind · Kublai Khan Tx

EXERCISE 20 OF 42
Groove S
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART I
PART N
PART G
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
10 groovesFGNIC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Theory of mind on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, toms through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49 and snare through bars 50-57, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-22, 50-51 and 55, and 6 more places -- 40.8% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Theory of mind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 33, 65, 66, 67, 68, 76 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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, N -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-26 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 47-59 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Theory of mind?

136 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 Theory of mind hard to play on drums?

45 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Theory of mind?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 33, 65, 66, 67, 68, 76 and 1 more.

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