Breathe · The Prodigy

117 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-27, and 6 more places -- 85.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BREATHE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 28, 46, 54 and 8 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 114-117 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 6 sections: 90 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-113.

CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesCS3S1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breathe?

130 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?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Breathe?

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 28, 46, 54 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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