Breaking Away · Avantasia

131 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-19, 30-36 and 38-43, and 6 more places -- 49.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BREAKING AWAY · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 27 and 16 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 8-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 14 sections: 91 keep time, 22 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-43.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART K
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHBKIUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breaking Away?

120 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 Breaking Away hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Breaking Away?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 27 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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