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Break · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove D -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Break on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, snare through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-43 and snare through bars 44-55, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, F (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-73 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED