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.44 Caliber Brain Surgery · Demolition Hammer

EXERCISE 9 OF 78
Hold Groove C for 8 bars -- Part C (bars 8-15)
124 / 246 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play .44 Caliber Brain Surgery on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
246
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
73/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-53, snare through bars 54-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-61, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--X---X---X---X-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
.44 Caliber Brain Surgery -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 52, 53, 54, 55, 59, 62 and 39 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 31-60 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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