Bravado · Rush

128 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-51, 54 and 74-80, and 1 more place -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BRAVADO · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 36, 52, 55, 56, 62, 64 and 15 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 12 sections: 90 keep time and 21 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART A
PART H
CHORUS
VERSE
PART F
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJQFAAN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bravado?

111 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 Bravado hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Bravado?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 36, 52, 55, 56, 62, 64 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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