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Breadfan · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 79
Groove E -- Part E
0 / 251 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART Z
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFZBEJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 12
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breadfan on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-42, and 38 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--x--x--|
Breadfan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-68 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-99 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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