Break Me Down · Burning Heads

25 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 0:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and mid tom.

Punk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
25
LENGTH
0:55
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-22 and 24-25 -- 88.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BREAK ME DOWN · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 23.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

25 bars across 2 sections: 16 keep time, 2 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-22.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Break Me Down?

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 Me Down hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

25 bars, about 0:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and mid tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Break Me Down?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 23.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 25 BARS ANALYSED
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