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Brain Dance · Annihilator

EXERCISE 20 OF 41
Join Chorus 2 to Part I (bars 54-56)
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0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART I
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brain Dance on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-13, hi-hat through bars 14-59, ride through bars 60-68, hi-hat through bars 69-74 and ride through bars 75-80, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Brain Dance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- I, K -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-53 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 75-84 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED