Brother (MTV Unplugged) · Alice in Chains

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-36, 53-63 and 65-71, and 2 more places -- 56.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BROTHER (MTV UNPLUGGED) · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 64 and 72.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 8 sections: 68 keep time, 2 are fills, 10 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-96.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
5 groovesCAS1S4S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brother (MTV Unplugged)?

80 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 Brother (MTV Unplugged) hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Brother (MTV Unplugged)?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 64 and 72.

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