Braveheart · Braveheart

41 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
41
LENGTH
1:22
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-40 -- 82.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BRAVEHEART · BAR 8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 6 and 41.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 41
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

41 bars across 2 sections: 38 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-40.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Braveheart?

120 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 Braveheart 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

41 bars, about 1:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Braveheart?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 6 and 41.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 41 BARS ANALYSED
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