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Flood My Brain · Trueblood

EXERCISE 6 OF 44
Groove C -- Part C
64 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flood My Brain on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-73, silence through bars 74-76, ride through bars 77-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-115.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Flood My Brain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- B, I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-60 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part S10 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 89-102 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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