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Check My Brain · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 20 PASSED · 45 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Check My Brain on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-32 and snare through bars 33-40, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--------x-x---x-|
Check My Brain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-80 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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