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Within The Mind · Death

EXERCISE 1 OF 76
Groove R -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Within The Mind on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

silence through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-31, hi-hat through bars 32-39, ride through bars 40-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-103, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    48
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Within The Mind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- R -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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