ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breach on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 125 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 124
LENGTH: 3:58
DIFFICULTY: 62/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32 and snare through bars 33-44, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 61-63, and 3 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x--x--x-|
BD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|-x-x-x-x-xx-xx-x|

Breach​ -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20 and 32 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 9-21 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Bars 25-33 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 31-37 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part M and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Breach?

125 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 Breach hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Breach?