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Me vs. a Brick Wall v2 · Locked shut

EXERCISE 3 OF 40
Fill at bar 36 and 52 (a small one)
31 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Me vs. a Brick Wall v2 on drums

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

59 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
83
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-30, snare through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-48 and snare through bars 49-55, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x-------x---|
Me vs. a Brick Wall v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- F, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 5-80 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-42 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-65 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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