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Hit the Bricks · Gordon Goodwin

Hit the Bricks · Gordon Goodwin
EXERCISE 5 OF 56
Fill at bar 8
121 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hit the Bricks on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-48, silence through bars 49-52, hi-hat through bars 53-63, toms through bars 64-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-102, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-106 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and the Chorus 4 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part U -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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