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Mr. Brightside · The Killers

EXERCISE 12 OF 36
Run F1 · Verse (bars 9-17)
99 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
VERSE
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKBPFU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mr. Brightside on drums

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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-32, toms through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52 and snare through bars 53-59, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Mr. Brightside -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- K, P -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-64 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part B and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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