Breadfan · Budgie

290 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 5:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
290
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-52, 55-58 and 61-64, and 15 more places -- 39.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 204 BPM
BREADFAN · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 80, 120, 146, 149, 202 and 3 more.

LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 146 · LANDS ON BAR 147
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 149 · LANDS ON BAR 150

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

290 bars across 15 sections: 207 keep time, 9 are fills, 36 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 161-201.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART H
PART O
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesDOBHA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breadfan?

204 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Breadfan hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

290 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Breadfan?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 80, 120, 146, 149, 202 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 290 BARS ANALYSED
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