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Break Stuff · Limp Bizkit

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesECILJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Break Stuff on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 2-62, snare through bars 63-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 27-29, and 3 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X-----x---------|
HH |--o-o---o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x--x-x|
Break Stuff -- 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 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 -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-46 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Break Stuff?

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 hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

74 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor 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 Stuff?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED