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Hey There Mr. Brooks · Asking Alexandria

EXERCISE 12 OF 56
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 56 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hey There Mr. Brooks on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-72, ride through bars 73-74, snare through bars 75-82, silence through bars 83-84, snare through bars 85-113 and silence through bars 114-128, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Hey There Mr. Brooks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- P, N -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-53 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-59 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part T -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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