The Brain Dance · Not Animals As Leaders

260 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 203 BPM, 7:22 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
203 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
260
LENGTH
7:22
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 55-70 -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 203 BPM
THE BRAIN DANCE · BARS 55-56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 23, 28, 33, 41, 78, 82 and 27 more.

LOOP · 203 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 203 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 203 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 203 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

260 bars across 21 sections: 82 keep time, 33 are fills and 119 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-69.

COUNT-IN
PART AD
CHORUS
BREAK
BREAK 2
18 groovesS21S19AKOS1+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Brain Dance?

203 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Brain Dance hard to play on drums?

53 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

260 bars, about 7:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Brain Dance?

9 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 23, 28, 33, 41, 78, 82 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 260 BARS ANALYSED
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