Universal Mind · Liquid Tension Experiment

285 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 7:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
285
LENGTH
7:05
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74, 82 and 90, and 18 more places -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 157 BPM
UNIVERSAL MIND · BAR 90
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

35 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 5, 6, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 74 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

31 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

285 bars across 22 sections: 159 keep time, 80 are fills, 7 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 160-174.

PART H
PART H
CHORUS
BREAK
PART AV
PART BQ
17 groovesADHBQABC+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Universal Mind?

157 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Universal Mind hard to play on drums?

61 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

285 bars, about 7:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 109 exercises over 32 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Universal Mind?

35 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 5, 6, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 74 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 285 BARS ANALYSED
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