breathe · Overgrown

12 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 0:21 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
12
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-12 -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BREATHE · BAR 11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 12.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 12
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

12 bars across 3 sections: 2 keep time, 1 is a fill and 7 are silent.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesS1S2EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is breathe?

136 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?

27 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

12 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in breathe?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 12.

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