Mr. Brightside · The Killers

132 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-31, 37-51 and 77-83, and 3 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
MR. BRIGHTSIDE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 20, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 22 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 32-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 8 sections: 75 keep time, 28 are fills, 19 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-51.

VERSE
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKBPFU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mr. Brightside?

148 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 Mr. Brightside hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Mr. Brightside?

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 20, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other The Killers drum parts

EVERY THE KILLERS CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →