Brain Transplant · Artificial Brain

87 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 200 BPM, 2:27 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 55-57 and 59-61 -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BRAIN TRANSPLANT · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 14, 22, 26, 29, 30 and 21 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 6 sections: 28 keep time, 27 are fills and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-21.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesGS6EBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brain Transplant?

200 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Transplant hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Transplant?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 14, 22, 26, 29, 30 and 21 more.

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