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Break Me Down · UNTITLE

Break Me Down · UNTITLE
EXERCISE 10 OF 27
Fill at bar 17
86 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Break Me Down on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-62, kick and crashes through bars 63-66, hi-hat through bars 67-82 and snare through bars 83-90, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |---x--x--x--x--x--x--o--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x--x--|
Break Me Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D, G -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-33 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-90 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED