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What Mirrors Might Reflect · Counterparts

EXERCISE 19 OF 58
3-bar fill at bar 38 and 1 more
61 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What Mirrors Might Reflect on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-46 and toms through bars 47-56, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
What Mirrors Might Reflect -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AS (a two-bar phrase), D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-33 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part A -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part AD -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part AD -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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