Breakout · Bon Jovi

159 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 43-45 and 97-104, and 5 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BREAKOUT · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 34, 42, 46, 62, 78 and 6 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 11 sections: 132 keep time, 12 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-94.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART F
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDFNIA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breakout?

130 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 Breakout hard to play on drums?

52 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?

159 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Breakout?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 34, 42, 46, 62, 78 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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