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Brand New Man · Brooks And Dunn

EXERCISE 9 OF 29
Groove G
68 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brand New Man on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-75, toms through bars 76-77, hi-hat through bars 78-86 and toms through bars 87-90.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-26 and 29-31, and 7 more places -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Brand New Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 7, 27, 33, 53, 59 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 -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Brand New Man?

127 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 Brand New Man 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:50 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, 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 Brand New Man?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 7, 27, 33, 53, 59 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED