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Brothers In Arms · For The Fallen Dreams

EXERCISE 3 OF 43
Groove G
26 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART N, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
PART N
PART R
PART N
PART O
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFXNKO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brothers In Arms on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-46, snare through bars 47-68, hi-hat through bars 69-78 and snare through bars 79-95.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 13 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---xxxx--xxxxx-|
Brothers In Arms -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 6, 20, 49, 57, 58 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- F, O -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-71 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-68 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Brothers In Arms?

123 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 Brothers In Arms hard to play on drums?

52 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Brothers In Arms?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 6, 20, 49, 57, 58 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED