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Warbrain · Alkaline Trio

EXERCISE 4 OF 34
Groove B -- Part B
64 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJFDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Warbrain on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-19, hi-hat through bars 20-52 and ride through bars 53-59, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|
HH |--------o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Warbrain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- J, F -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 4-13 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-39 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-105 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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