Brimstone · Whitechapel

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57, 59 and 61, and 2 more places -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BRIMSTONE · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12 and 37 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 2-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 12-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 8 sections: 17 keep time, 43 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-11.

CHORUS
PART S
PART Y
PART Q
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJASQYS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brimstone?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Brimstone hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Brimstone?

12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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