What have we done · Brutus

102 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 31-32 and 60, and 3 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
WHAT HAVE WE DONE · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 48, 49, 50, 58 and 8 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 48-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 80-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 11 sections: 37 keep time, 14 are fills, 36 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-16.

CHORUS
PART G
PART B
PART I
PART B
PART G
PART O
PART P
OUTRO
7 groovesABGPO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What have we done?

132 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 What have we done hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 What have we done?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 48, 49, 50, 58 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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