Brain Dead · Black Bomb A

48 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 1:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
1:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 7 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BRAIN DEAD · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 23.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 5 sections: 33 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-43.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIECS1HFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brain Dead?

123 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 Dead hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 1:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 23.

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