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BRAINROT · Grandson

EXERCISE 19 OF 27
4-bar fill at bar 38
35 / 63 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
BREAK 2
OUTRO
8 groovesIFDS9S8+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BRAINROT on drums

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-4, silence through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-37 and snare through bars 38-49, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 19 and 23, and 2 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x-x--x--x-x--x-x|
BRAINROT -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 21, 25, 33, 38, 39 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-24 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-50 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is BRAINROT?

92 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 BRAINROT hard to play on drums?

55 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 BRAINROT?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 21, 25, 33, 38, 39 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED