Brianstorm · Arctic Monkeys

117 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 43-49 and 83, and 4 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BRIANSTORM · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 27, 28, 34, 42, 58, 67 and 7 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 67-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 14 sections: 78 keep time, 16 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
PART M
PART I
PART Q
VERSE 4
OUTRO
7 groovesADMEI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brianstorm?

165 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 Brianstorm hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 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 Brianstorm?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 27, 28, 34, 42, 58, 67 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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