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Re: Your Brains · Jonathan Coulton

Re: Your Brains · Jonathan Coulton
EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Re: Your Brains on drums

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

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-26, silence through bars 27-33, hi-hat through bars 34-56, ride through bars 57-64 and silence through bars 65-72, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Re: Your Brains -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-54 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-65 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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