BRAVE GROOVE · iLiFE

185 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11-14 and 25, and 11 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BRAVE GROOVE · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 15, 34 and 37 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 25 sections: 100 keep time, 43 are fills, 8 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-89.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART BB
OUTRO
17 groovesDLSAAJ+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BRAVE GROOVE?

194 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 BRAVE GROOVE hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 BRAVE GROOVE?

18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 15, 34 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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