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Ego Brain · System of a Down

EXERCISE 3 OF 17
Groove D -- Part D
25 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ego Brain on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, ride through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-32, ride through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-48, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    19
    1...............2...............3...............4...............5...............6...............
CC |x-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x---------------x-----------------------x-------x---------------x-----------------------x-------|
Ego Brain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED