Brick Is Red · Pixies

55 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 1:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
1:54
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 13-19 and 21-23, and 6 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BRICK IS RED · BAR 14
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 27, 31 and 48.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 7 sections: 45 keep time, 3 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-47.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
5 groovesCAS7S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brick Is Red?

124 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 Is Red hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Brick Is Red?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 27, 31 and 48.

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