Break The Cycle · For Today

140 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 3 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BREAK THE CYCLE · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 14, 22, 30, 34, 35, 36 and 28 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 34-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 46-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 10 sections: 90 keep time and 34 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

PART B
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART U
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPUFABB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Break The Cycle?

135 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 The Cycle hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 The Cycle?

10 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 14, 22, 30, 34, 35, 36 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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