Brighton Rock · Queen

181 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-21, 35-36 and 68, and 3 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BRIGHTON ROCK · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 14, 25, 33, 39, 43 and 21 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 19 sections: 64 keep time, 27 are fills, 9 are stops and 67 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 161-169.

PART D
PART Q
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
14 groovesS15DGQA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brighton Rock?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Brighton Rock hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 94 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Brighton Rock?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 14, 25, 33, 39, 43 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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