← SONGS

Break The Cycle · Motionless In White

EXERCISE 19 OF 52
3-bar fill at bar 51
66 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART S2
PART F
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKFGTAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Break The Cycle on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-20, hi-hat through bars 21-30, snare through bars 31-43, hi-hat through bars 44-53 and snare through bars 54-61, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 40-43 and 106-112 -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |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

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 28 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-31 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part T -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Break The Cycle?

115 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?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 28 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED