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Where is My Mind? · Pixies

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where is My Mind? on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-32, hi-hat through bars 33-35, snare through bars 36-40, hi-hat through bars 41-50 and snare through bars 51-59, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-23, 26-39 and 45-58 -- 65.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
HF |x---------------|
Where is My Mind? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 44.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 38-45 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 43-64 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Where is My Mind??

81 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?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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??

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED