Brainstorm · Arctic Monkeys

117 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 9 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BRAINSTORM · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 27, 28, 34, 42, 58, 67 and 7 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 67-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 11 sections: 87 keep time, 15 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

CHORUS
PART E
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
PART P
PART Q
OUTRO
7 groovesBFQEP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brainstorm?

165 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Brainstorm hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Brainstorm?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 27, 28, 34, 42, 58, 67 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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