Hey There Mr. Brooks · Asking Alexandria

147 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-48, 53-56 and 101-104, and 1 more place -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
HEY THERE MR. BROOKS · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 3, 12, 14, 15, 25 and 22 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 25-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 32-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 17 sections: 75 keep time, 29 are fills, 22 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-128.

PART A
CHORUS
PART T
PART V
PART AB
OUTRO
11 groovesFRPAN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey There Mr. Brooks?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hey There Mr. Brooks hard to play on drums?

51 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 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 Hey There Mr. Brooks?

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 3, 12, 14, 15, 25 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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