Brain Damage · Pink Floyd

128 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
17/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 47-48 and 51-53, and 5 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BRAIN DAMAGE · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 41, 42, 50, 85, 86, 94 and 3 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 5 sections: 92 keep time, 9 are fills and 25 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-40.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brain Damage?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Brain Damage hard to play on drums?

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Brain Damage?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 41, 42, 50, 85, 86, 94 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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