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(We Are The) Braindead · Lost Society

EXERCISE 9 OF 53
8-bar fill at bar 1
38 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesMRGS6UFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play (We Are The) Braindead on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-21, snare through bars 22-58 and kick and crashes through bars 59-60, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-30, 33-34 and 49-50, and 2 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29                               30
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-----x-|--------x---------x-----x-----x-|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x---x---x-----|x-----x-----x-------xxxx--x-x---|
(We Are The) Braindead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- P (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is (We Are The) Braindead?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 (We Are The) Braindead hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 (We Are The) Braindead?

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED