Breadcrumb Trail · Slint

92 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 5:22 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 6 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BREADCRUMB TRAIL · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 22, 24, 26 and 13 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 8 sections: 31 keep time, 19 are fills, 9 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 2
6 groovesS8HQCD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breadcrumb Trail?

100 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Breadcrumb Trail hard to play on drums?

55 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 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 Breadcrumb Trail?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 22, 24, 26 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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