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Break The Cycle · For Today

EXERCISE 25 OF 54
Run J1 · Part J (bars 27-38)
103 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Break The Cycle on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-10, snare through bars 11-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, toms through bars 35-40 and snare through bars 41-45, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11                                               12
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x--x--x--x-----------------x--x-----x--x--|x--x--------------x--x--x-----x--x--x--x--------|
Break The Cycle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- F, P -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-39 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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