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Brain Stew (E Standard) · Green Day

EXERCISE 8 OF 16
Groove F -- Outro
36 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS1DFHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brain Stew (E Standard) on drums

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-56 and ride through bars 57-61.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-24, 29-36 and 41-47 -- 55.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |xx------xx------|xx------xx---x--|
Brain Stew (E Standard) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 54 and 56.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 23-48 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Brain Stew (E Standard)?

76 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 Stew (E Standard) hard to play on drums?

52 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Brain Stew (E Standard)?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 54 and 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED