Brief Exchange · chino moreno

163 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-18, 25-29 and 53-55, and 2 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BRIEF EXCHANGE · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 24 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 43-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 14 sections: 85 keep time, 30 are fills, 22 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-79.

PART A
PART G
PART J
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART S10
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIACGJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brief Exchange?

144 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 Brief Exchange hard to play on drums?

42 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 11 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 Brief Exchange?

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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