mind brand · maretu

168 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-11, 13-17 and 25-28, and 12 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 156 BPM
MIND BRAND · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 22 sections: 54 keep time, 1 is a fill, 72 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-127.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO 2
15 groovesBADES22+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is mind brand?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is mind brand hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in mind brand?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

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