Warbrain · Alkaline Trio

116 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 37 and 39, and 9 more places -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 194 BPM
WARBRAIN · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 36, 38, 40, 44, 48 and 11 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 9 sections: 61 keep time, 17 are fills, 26 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-25.

PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJFDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Warbrain?

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

Is Warbrain hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Warbrain?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 36, 38, 40, 44, 48 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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