Brain Stew · Green Day

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-24, 29-36 and 41-47 -- 52.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BRAIN STEW · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 7 sections: 40 keep time, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFS1DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brain Stew?

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 hard to play on drums?

56 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?

63 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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