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Brain Dead · Architects

EXERCISE 26 OF 51
Run J1 · Part J (bars 24-29)
54 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brain Dead on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-19, snare through bars 20-39, toms through bars 40-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57 and snare through bars 58-61, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 36-48 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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