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Brighton Rock · Queen

EXERCISE 18 OF 55
Groove P -- Part P
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0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART P
PART D
PART Q
PART A
PART P
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
14 groovesS15DGQA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brighton Rock on drums

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.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
89/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-19, ride through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-34, ride through bars 35-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-53, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x-----x-----x---x-----x-----x-|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
Brighton Rock -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-34 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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