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Brotherhood · B'Z

EXERCISE 1 OF 68
Groove E -- Chorus 2
0 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brotherhood on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-14, hi-hat through bars 15-23, ride through bars 24-34, hi-hat through bars 35-44 and ride through bars 45-57, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    66
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
RD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-x-----x-------x-|
Brotherhood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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