Breakout · Foo Fighters

131 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-20, 25-28 and 69-72, and 14 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BREAKOUT · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 52, 64, 68 and 6 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 19 sections: 92 keep time, 12 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-86.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART G
PART L
PART M
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCDGLM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breakout?

157 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 Breakout hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Breakout?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 52, 64, 68 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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