brutal · Olivia Rodrigo

59 bars, 4:43, at 50 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

PopAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
50 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-7, 32-35 and 52-59 -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 50 BPM
BRUTAL · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 23 and 43.

LOOP · 50 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 9 sections: 47 keep time, 2 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-59.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDFCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is brutal?

50 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is brutal hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in brutal?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 23 and 43.

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