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Brandy Wine · Belvedere

Brandy Wine · Belvedere
EXERCISE 6 OF 49
Groove B
83 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEQTNJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brandy Wine on drums

169 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-54, ride through bars 55-58, hi-hat through bars 59-114, ride through bars 115-118 and hi-hat through bars 119-169.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 19-33 and 83-97, and 2 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 18, 46, 54, 81, 82 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Brandy Wine?

200 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 Brandy Wine hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Brandy Wine?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 18, 46, 54, 81, 82 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED