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Brave · Katatonia

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove I -- Chorus
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0 / 41 PASSED · 101 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART A
PART S9
CHORUS
PART S11
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART A
8 groovesIACFE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brave on drums

303 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 9:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
303
LENGTH
9:56
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56, snare through bars 57-64, hi-hat through bars 65-72 and snare through bars 73-81, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 101-156, 175-189 and 191-205, and 2 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    102
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Brave -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 40, 72, 190, 262, 286 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- I, A -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-50 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-156 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 155-206 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 219-250 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 270-288 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Brave?

122 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 Brave hard to play on drums?

44 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

303 bars, about 9:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Brave?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 40, 72, 190, 262, 286 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 303 BARS ANALYSED