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Break You · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 26 OF 53
Fill at bar 60, 68 and 117
132 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART V
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
PART V
PART J
PART N
PART V
PART Y
OUTRO
9 groovesDNJYV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Break You on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-39, snare through bars 40-54, toms through bars 55-57 and kick and crashes through bars 58-60, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-31, 33-38 and 79-84, and 1 more place -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
T2 |x---------------|
FT |-x--x----x--x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Break You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- J, N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-44 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part V -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-72 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Break You?

145 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 You hard to play on drums?

60 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Break You?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED