Little Braver · Girls Dead Monster

128 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-9, 36 and 38-44, and 4 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
LITTLE BRAVER · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 10, 18, 23, 27, 29, 33 and 28 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 13 sections: 75 keep time, 34 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-9.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBIGAHP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Little Braver?

128 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 Little Braver 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Little Braver?

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 10, 18, 23, 27, 29, 33 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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