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Break away studio version · Tokio Hotel

EXERCISE 30 OF 45
Fill at bar 62 (a small one)
82 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Break away studio version on drums

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

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-11, hi-hat through bars 12-29 and snare through bars 30-34, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |-x-x-x-x-x-x----|
Break away studio version -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- M -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-13 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-58 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-69 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 71-88 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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