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Brianstorm · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 15 OF 42
Groove K -- Part K
85 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brianstorm on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-42, toms through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-90, toms through bars 91-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-107, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x-x-----x-|
Brianstorm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 27, 28, 67, 68, 69, 70 and 4 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-88 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 42-72 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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