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Little Braver · Girls Dead Monster

Little Braver · Girls Dead Monster
EXERCISE 10 OF 53
Groove F
77 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Little Braver on drums

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

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
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 3-34, snare through bars 35-37, hi-hat through bars 38-69, snare through bars 70-72, hi-hat through bars 73-78 and snare through bars 79-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-x---x---x-----|
Little Braver -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 23-54 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-77 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-86 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-117 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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