Where Is My Mind? · Pixies

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-22, 26-39 and 45-57 -- 62.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
WHERE IS MY MIND? · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 23, 25, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 1 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 41-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 3 sections: 58 keep time, 7 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-22.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where Is My Mind??

80 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 Where Is My Mind? hard to play on drums?

46 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 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 Where Is My Mind??

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 23, 25, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 1 more.

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