Brain Dead · Architects

103 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 42-44, and 1 more place -- 12.1% 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
BRAIN DEAD · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 19, 27, 31 and 11 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 16 sections: 63 keep time, 17 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-103.

CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART Z
PART L
PART A
OUTRO
12 groovesAACLSF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brain Dead?

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 Brain Dead hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Dead?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 19, 27, 31 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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