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Brother (MTV Unplugged) · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
5 groovesCAS1S4S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brother (MTV Unplugged) on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-52 and ride through bars 53-76, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---|
SD |----x-----------|----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|--x-------x---x-|
Brother (MTV Unplugged) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED