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Break Through It All (feat. Kellin Quinn) · Tomoya Ohtani

EXERCISE 17 OF 101
Fill at bar 12 and 76 (a small one)
90 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 101 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART AC
PART H
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART AR
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLHOBBAR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 33
LAND · 33
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Break Through It All (feat. Kellin Quinn) on drums

190 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, snare through bars 29-44, hi-hat through bars 45-55, snare through bars 56-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-145, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 45, and 24 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Break Through It All (feat. Kellin Quinn) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

33 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 77 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AR -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 10 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part AC -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Break Through It All (feat. Kellin Quinn)?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Break Through It All (feat. Kellin Quinn) hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Through It All (feat. Kellin Quinn)?

33 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 77 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED