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Breakout · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 9 OF 42
Join Part A to Chorus (bars 9-11)
120 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breakout on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-77, toms through bars 78-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-159.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Breakout -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- D, F -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-35 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-74 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 75-97 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 93-124 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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