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Brianstorm · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 13 OF 44
Fill at bar 34, 42 and 58 (a small one)
87 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS 2, VERSE 3
CHORUS
VERSE
PART E
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
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, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
89/100

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 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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
T1 |---x---x-x-x-x-x|
FT |x-x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Brianstorm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-39 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-88 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-44 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Verse 3 -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  8. Through the Verse 3 and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 6 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?

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