brutal 9876543 · Jackson Burka

40 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 1:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
40
LENGTH
1:39
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 24-26 and 28-29 -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BRUTAL 9876543 · BARS 24-25
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 15 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

43 bars across 3 sections: 18 keep time, 21 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesOUAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is brutal 9876543?

90 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 brutal 9876543 hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

40 bars, about 1:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 brutal 9876543?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 40 BARS ANALYSED
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