BIRDBRAIN · Jamie Paige

163 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 18 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BIRDBRAIN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 104 and 108.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 16 sections: 127 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-65.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
PART S8
PART M
PART X
14 groovesHNFBX+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BIRDBRAIN?

160 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 BIRDBRAIN hard to play on drums?

44 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in BIRDBRAIN?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 104 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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