Breathe · Malcolm Todd

80 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 19 more places -- 72.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BREATHE · BAR 49
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 3 sections: 72 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-64.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breathe?

110 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 hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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