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Breaking The Law · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 27 OF 32
Hold Groove C for 8 bars -- Outro 2 (bars 82-89)
100 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breaking The Law on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-77, toms through bars 78-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-105.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Breaking The Law -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-67 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-82 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED