Where Is My Mind? · Nada Surf

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-22, 25-38 and 40-43, and 2 more places -- 97% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 78 BPM
WHERE IS MY MIND? · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 11 sections: 64 keep time and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-77.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 4
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesDS8S1S10S2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where Is My Mind??

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Where Is My Mind? hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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