Re: Your Brains · Jonathan Coulton

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 23-25, and 7 more places -- 52.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 83 BPM
RE: YOUR BRAINS · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 39, 43, 47 and 4 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 10 sections: 38 keep time, 10 are fills, 11 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-64.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S4
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCS1FIS4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Re: Your Brains?

83 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 Re: Your Brains hard to play on drums?

47 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?

89 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Re: Your Brains?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 39, 43, 47 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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