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Breaking Point (Correct) · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 18 OF 64
Groove L
84 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART M
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breaking Point (Correct) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
219 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-41, snare through bars 42-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-52, silence through bars 53-55, hi-hat through bars 56-59 and snare through bars 60-71, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Breaking Point (Correct) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED