Ego Brain · System of a Down

71 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 3:17 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25 and 37-43 -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
EGO BRAIN · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 14, 26, 32 and 44.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 9 sections: 29 keep time, 4 are fills and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-13.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesS9BFDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ego Brain?

130 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Ego Brain hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 Ego Brain?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 14, 26, 32 and 44.

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