Brother To Brother · Gino Vannelli

249 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 7:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
249
LENGTH
7:14
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 8 and 10-12, and 15 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.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BROTHER TO BROTHER · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 31, 32, 36 and 65 more.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 139 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

249 bars across 22 sections: 149 keep time, 71 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-139.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART AH
CHORUS 4
PART AH
PART BA
CHORUS 5
PART L
PART CP
15 groovesBLAHBACP+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brother To Brother?

139 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 To Brother hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

249 bars, about 7:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 32 sittings, about 24 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 Brother To Brother?

22 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 31, 32, 36 and 65 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 249 BARS ANALYSED
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