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Breaker · Accept

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove D -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART U
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
6 groovesDPIUAE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breaker on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, ride through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-26, ride through bars 27-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-43, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-13, 17-25 and 33-35, and 2 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x--------------x|-----------x--x-|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|--o-o-o-o-o-----|
SD |--x---x---x---xx|--x---x---xx--x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Breaker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 14, 15 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-50 -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-75 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Breaker?

119 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 Breaker hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Breaker?

15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 14, 15 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED