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Brickhouse · Commodores

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove C -- Outro
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PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brickhouse on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-94.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C, B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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