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Break Stuff (Drop D Tuned) · Limp Bizkit

EXERCISE 6 OF 25
Groove E
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0 / 25 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGBIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Break Stuff (Drop D Tuned) on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-17, snare through bars 18-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, snare through bars 35-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-62, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-53 -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-----x-----x---|
BD |-x-----x-----x--|
HF |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Break Stuff (Drop D Tuned) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 14, 30 and 70.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 19-38 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Break Stuff (Drop D Tuned)?

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 Stuff (Drop D Tuned) 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Break Stuff (Drop D Tuned)?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 14, 30 and 70.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED