Brain Dance · Annihilator

108 bars, 5:53, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 30-32, and 3 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BRAIN DANCE · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 45, 52, 83 and 104.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 13 sections: 83 keep time, 4 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-42.

PART S2
PART C
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO 2
12 groovesFIKCD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brain Dance?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Brain Dance hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Brain Dance?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 45, 52, 83 and 104.

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