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Break The Rules · Charli XCX

Break The Rules · Charli XCX
EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 21 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART S6
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDS10BLS5+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Break The Rules on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
37/100

snare through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-10, silence through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-22, silence through bars 23-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-32, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 37-52 and 61-68, and 1 more place -- 57.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Break The Rules -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 57 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- D, J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-34 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-69 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Break The Rules?

124 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 Rules 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Break The Rules?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 57 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED