Break my baby · Kaleo

160 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 16 and 33-40, and 4 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BREAK MY BABY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 20 sections: 108 keep time, 1 is a fill, 9 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-96.

PART A
PART C
PART I
PART A
PART S9
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART S15
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHAKCG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Break my baby?

148 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 my baby hard to play on drums?

51 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Break my baby?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

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