HAVE YOU THE BRAIN WORMS?! · MY GIRLFRIENDS A HOMICIDAL MANIAC

73 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46-73 -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HAVE YOU THE BRAIN WORMS?! · BARS 46-47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 22, 32 and 34.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 8 sections: 60 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-73.

PART A
PART B
PART D
PART H
PART K
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesNHBDA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is HAVE YOU THE BRAIN WORMS?!?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 HAVE YOU THE BRAIN WORMS?! hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 HAVE YOU THE BRAIN WORMS?!?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 22, 32 and 34.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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