Brand New Numb · Motionless In White

120 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 28-43 and 65-80 -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BRAND NEW NUMB · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 27, 64, 104 and 120.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 12 sections: 81 keep time, 4 are fills, 17 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-43.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBGCFD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brand New Numb?

130 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 Numb hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Numb?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 27, 64, 104 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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