Brotherhood · B'Z

100 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 25-26 and 28, and 7 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BROTHERHOOD · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 13, 14, 23 and 12 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 15 sections: 52 keep time, 18 are fills, 7 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-54.

PART S2
PART J
PART K
CHORUS
PART J
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AC
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEKJAPAC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brotherhood?

120 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 Brotherhood hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 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 Brotherhood?

14 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 13, 14, 23 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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