Break It Right Back · Megan Moroney

77 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 2:54 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20, 25-31 and 34-49, and 5 more places -- 71.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BREAK IT RIGHT BACK · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 33, 50, 51, 52, 55 and 4 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 50-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 7 sections: 51 keep time, 10 are fills, 3 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBHS1S3S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Break It Right Back?

80 BPM, in 3/4, 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 It Right Back hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 It Right Back?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 33, 50, 51, 52, 55 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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