Flood My Brain · Trueblood

115 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 25-31 and 57-63, and 1 more place -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
FLOOD MY BRAIN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 44, 48, 56 and 13 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 13 sections: 78 keep time, 19 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-40.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART C
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART S10
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBIS10CA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flood My Brain?

128 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 Flood My Brain hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Flood My Brain?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 44, 48, 56 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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