Breadfan · Metallica

251 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 4:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 22 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BREADFAN · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 28, 29, 32 and 23 more.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 17 sections: 149 keep time, 29 are fills, 44 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 148-159.

PART E
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART Z
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFZBEJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breadfan?

205 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second 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?

63 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Breadfan?

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 28, 29, 32 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED
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