.44 Caliber Brain Surgery · Demolition Hammer

246 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
246
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-51, 56-58 and 60-61, and 12 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
.44 CALIBER BRAIN SURGERY · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 52, 53, 54, 55, 59, 62 and 39 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 52-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 62-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

246 bars across 14 sections: 174 keep time, 45 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-32.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AF
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesFAFCACM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is .44 Caliber Brain Surgery?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is .44 Caliber Brain Surgery hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

246 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 .44 Caliber Brain Surgery?

16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 52, 53, 54, 55, 59, 62 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 246 BARS ANALYSED
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