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Brass Monkey · Beastie Boys

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove B -- Outro 2
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0 / 7 PASSED · 55 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brass Monkey on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
38/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4 and snare through bars 5-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-19, and 14 more places -- 72.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
HF |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Brass Monkey -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Brass Monkey?

118 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 Brass Monkey hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED