Breakdown · Seether

115 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 33-35 and 61-67, and 9 more places -- 44.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BREAKDOWN · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 59, 60 and 12 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 5 sections: 68 keep time, 18 are fills, 12 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-54.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breakdown?

140 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 Breakdown 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 Breakdown?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 59, 60 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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