Brick House · Commodores

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 9, and 27 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BRICK HOUSE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 22, 28 and 14 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 8 sections: 60 keep time and 20 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-90.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDOJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brick House?

108 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Brick House hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Brick House?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 22, 28 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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