Check My Brain · Alice in Chains

104 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 20 more places -- 45% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 113 BPM
CHECK MY BRAIN · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 104.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 104
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 9 sections: 85 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-79.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Check My Brain?

113 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 Check My Brain hard to play on drums?

44 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 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 Check My Brain?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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