Hit the Bricks · Gordon Goodwin

174 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 33-35 and 37-38, and 7 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
HIT THE BRICKS · BAR 74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 39, 40, 52 and 21 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 15 sections: 123 keep time, 27 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-120.

PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART U
PART M
OUTRO
8 groovesHEUMB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hit the Bricks?

150 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 Hit the Bricks hard to play on drums?

53 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 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 Hit the Bricks?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 39, 40, 52 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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