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Breathe Deeper · Tame Impala

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove E -- Chorus 4
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PART B
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART A
CHORUS 3
BREAK
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
8 groovesEKGAB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breathe Deeper on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 6:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-76, silence through bars 77-88, hi-hat through bars 89-125, ride through bars 126-130, silence through bars 131-137 and hi-hat through bars 138-162.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 33 and 35, and 9 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Breathe Deeper -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 60, 92, 100 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- E, A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-38 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-62 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-76 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-122 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Breathe Deeper?

105 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 Breathe Deeper hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 6:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Breathe Deeper?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 60, 92, 100 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED