Me vs. a Brick Wall v2 · Locked shut

83 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 23-25, and 3 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
ME VS. A BRICK WALL V2 · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 22, 36, 38 and 8 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 9-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 8 sections: 40 keep time, 14 are fills, 11 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-20.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFS7JVA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Me vs. a Brick Wall v2?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Me vs. a Brick Wall v2 hard to play on drums?

59 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Me vs. a Brick Wall v2?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 22, 36, 38 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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