Before The Break Of Dawn · As Blood Runs Black

156 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-15, 110-112 and 114-117, and 2 more places -- 9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BEFORE THE BREAK OF DAWN · BARS 110-111
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 25, 33, 38, 44, 49 and 31 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 19 sections: 83 keep time, 37 are fills, 8 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-131.

PART C
PART L
PART R
CHORUS
PART BG
PART BK
PART L
PART BS
PART BU
OUTRO 2
16 groovesAFLBSBKC+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Before The Break Of Dawn?

120 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 Before The Break Of Dawn hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 25 sittings, about 28 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 Before The Break Of Dawn?

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 25, 33, 38, 44, 49 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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