Breaking The Law · Judas Priest

105 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 19-20 and 23, and 6 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BREAKING THE LAW · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 25, 41, 49, 78, 79 and 5 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 78-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 7 sections: 81 keep time, 12 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECBIS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breaking The Law?

165 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 The Law hard to play on drums?

61 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 The Law?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 25, 41, 49, 78, 79 and 5 more.

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