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BRBRBR · Lowkey Ararara

BRBRBR · Lowkey Ararara
EXERCISE 15 OF 69
Groove P -- Part P
89 / 215 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART D
PART P
PART S
PART V
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART AH
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesJDVSAH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BRBRBR on drums

215 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
95/100

ride through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-23, hi-hat through bars 24-36, snare through bars 37-44, ride through bars 45-51 and snare through bars 52-59, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-33, 81-89 and 102-116, and 2 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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-------x-x-----|
BRBRBR -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 37, 38 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is BRBRBR?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is BRBRBR hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 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 BRBRBR?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 37, 38 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED