Breaking Point (Correct) · Parkway Drive

147 bars at 219 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
219 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-32, 34-38 and 40, and 2 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 219 BPM
BREAKING POINT (CORRECT) · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 39, 47, 67, 69, 75 and 11 more.

LOOP · 219 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 219 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 219 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 219 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 16 sections: 92 keep time, 18 are fills, 19 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-32.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART D
PART M
PART U
PART W
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesCVUDF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breaking Point (Correct)?

219 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 Breaking Point (Correct) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Breaking Point (Correct)?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 39, 47, 67, 69, 75 and 11 more.

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