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Brutal Love · Green Day

EXERCISE 7 OF 30
Groove E -- Part E
80 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHBEKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brutal Love on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, ride through bars 37-53, hi-hat through bars 54-69, toms through bars 70-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-77, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-60, 62-68 and 74-76, and 5 more places -- 41% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    54
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------x-----------|
HH |----o---o-------o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-----------x---|
Brutal Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 36, 53, 61, 77, 78, 79 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-74 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Brutal Love?

123 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 Love hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Love?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 36, 53, 61, 77, 78, 79 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED