Break away studio version · Tokio Hotel

92 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-33, 55-56 and 79-88 -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BREAK AWAY STUDIO VERSION · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 15, 21, 23, 27, 29, 38 and 10 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 13 sections: 64 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
10 groovesJGDEM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Break away studio version?

110 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 Break away studio version hard to play on drums?

61 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Break away studio version?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 15, 21, 23, 27, 29, 38 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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