Brain Stew/Jaded · Green Day

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 6:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-73, 83-91 and 101-103, and 2 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BRAIN STEW/JADED · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 64, 74, 82, 92, 100, 104 and 2 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 14 sections: 81 keep time, 8 are fills, 2 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-23.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART B
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
8 groovesJBLS1D+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brain Stew/Jaded?

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/Jaded hard to play on drums?

64 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Brain Stew/Jaded?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 64, 74, 82, 92, 100, 104 and 2 more.

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