Brickhouse · Commodores

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 25 and 27, and 9 more places -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BRICKHOUSE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 29, 41, 49, 57, 65 and 6 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 3 sections: 78 keep time and 12 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-26.

PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brickhouse?

105 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 Brickhouse hard to play on drums?

47 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Brickhouse?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 29, 41, 49, 57, 65 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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