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Brain Damage · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 16 OF 19
Fill at bar 102 (a small one)
128 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brain Damage on drums

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.

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
17/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-40, toms through bars 41-42, ride through bars 43-48, toms through bars 49-50, ride through bars 51-56 and toms through bars 57-59, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Brain Damage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- D -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 8 minutes. Open above.
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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