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Brotherhood Of The Snake · Testament

EXERCISE 3 OF 56
Groove M
31 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLABEPW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brotherhood Of The Snake on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
70/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-20, snare through bars 21-38, ride through bars 39-45, hi-hat through bars 46-56 and snare through bars 57-76, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25 and 27, and 8 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
Brotherhood Of The Snake -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 14, 18 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- L, AB -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Brotherhood Of The Snake?

138 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 Brotherhood Of The Snake hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Of The Snake?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 14, 18 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED