Sticks And Bricks · A Day To Remember

113 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 19 and 31, and 9 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
STICKS AND BRICKS · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 13, 21, 23, 25, 27 and 19 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 13 sections: 62 keep time, 25 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-52.

PART D
PART L
PART D
PART H
PART P
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesABDLHP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sticks And Bricks?

142 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 Sticks And Bricks hard to play on drums?

52 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sticks And Bricks?

18 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 13, 21, 23, 25, 27 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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