Break · Three Days Grace

86 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 22-24 and 26-28, and 5 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BREAK · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 43, 55, 65, 69 and 85.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 10 sections: 36 keep time, 6 are fills, 29 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-37.

PART B
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDJBS9I+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Break?

116 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 hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Break?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 43, 55, 65, 69 and 85.

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