Brianstorm · Arctic Monkeys

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

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-25, 30-33 and 36-37, and 8 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BRIANSTORM · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 27, 28, 67, 68, 69, 70 and 4 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 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
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 12 sections: 85 keep time, 12 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART P
OUTRO
7 groovesFAEPI+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?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 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 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 27, 28, 67, 68, 69, 70 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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