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Break my baby · Kaleo

EXERCISE 17 OF 50
Groove J -- Outro
139 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART K, OUTRO
PART A
PART C
PART I
PART A
PART S9
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART S15
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHAKCG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Break my baby on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-54, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
Break my baby -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- A, H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-148 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-55 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED