Breathe · Alternative Competition 5

73 bars, 4:11, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-20, 22 and 25-26, and 5 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BREATHE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 18, 21, 40, 43 and 59.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 9 sections: 48 keep time, 6 are fills, 3 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-58.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHDCFS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breathe?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Breathe hard to play on drums?

58 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Breathe?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 18, 21, 40, 43 and 59.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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