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.

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

TEMPO

70 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

73

LENGTH

4:11

DIFFICULTY

58/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-18, ride through bars 19-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40, ride through bars 41-60 and silence through bars 61-63, and 1 more change after that.

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x--------------x|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HH |--------ox------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--xx-x-x---x|

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

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Bars 6-17 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
7. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.