Break Me Down · UNTITLE

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-16 and 30-36, and 6 more places -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BREAK ME DOWN · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 17, 29, 46 and 66.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 9 sections: 82 keep time, 5 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-45.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDGBMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Break Me Down?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

53 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Me Down?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 17, 29, 46 and 66.

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