Break The Ice · Britney Spears (With rock instruments.)

86 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14, 20-28 and 30-32, and 3 more places -- 47.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BREAK THE ICE · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 13 sections: 66 keep time and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-86.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART E
OUTRO
9 groovesBAS1EC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Break The Ice?

118 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 The Ice hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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