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Brimstone · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 24 OF 46
7-bar fill at bar 32
47 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brimstone on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20 and snare through bars 21-28, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    57
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Brimstone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- AS -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part S and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-39 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 37-53 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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