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Mr. Brightside · The Killers

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove K -- Outro 2
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0 / 33 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT
VERSE
PART C
PART E
PART F
CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHEMAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mr. Brightside on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at 145 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
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, toms through bars 29-31, hi-hat through bars 32-48, snare through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-60 and snare through bars 61-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 65-71 and 73-76 -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Mr. Brightside -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64 and 3 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 -- K, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-33 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-80 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mr. Brightside?

145 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Mr. Brightside?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED