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Sticks And Bricks · A Day To Remember

EXERCISE 8 OF 71
Groove P -- Part P
31 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sticks And Bricks on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-45, hi-hat through bars 46-53 and snare through bars 54-69, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |--X-----X-X---X-|
Sticks And Bricks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- I, AB -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-54 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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