Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy · Mr. Big

163 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-45, 75-81 and 119-133, and 3 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
DADDY, BROTHER, LOVER, LITTLE BOY · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 149, 150, 156, 157, 158, 159 and 3 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 149-150 · LANDS ON BAR 151 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 156-162 · LANDS ON BAR 163 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 11 sections: 132 keep time, 9 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-35.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJBSWH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 16 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy?

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 149, 150, 156, 157, 158, 159 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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