Kain · Brain Drain

58 bars, 3:06, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

PunkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 10-11 and 22-29, and 2 more places -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
KAIN · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 9, 16, 31, 38 and 58.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 13 sections: 35 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-29.

CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART G
BREAK 3
9 groovesBGLS12J+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kain?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Kain hard to play on drums?

50 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Kain?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 9, 16, 31, 38 and 58.

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