What Mirrors Might Reflect · Counterparts

134 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 18 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
WHAT MIRRORS MIGHT REFLECT · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 59 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 14-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 27-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 12 sections: 41 keep time, 66 are fills, 8 are stops and 10 are silent.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART AD
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCADAPS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What Mirrors Might Reflect?

185 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 What Mirrors Might Reflect hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 What Mirrors Might Reflect?

18 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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