Within The Mind · Death

197 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 7:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
7:02
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-54, 56 and 58-62, and 3 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
WITHIN THE MIND · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, 19 and 17 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 16 sections: 135 keep time, 23 are fills, 15 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-94.

PART C
PART J
PART M
CHORUS
PART V
PART AA
PART C
PART J
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesRCAJJM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Within The Mind?

112 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 Within The Mind hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 7:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Within The Mind?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, 19 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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