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Breathe · The Prodigy

Breathe · The Prodigy
EXERCISE 11 OF 12
4-bar fill at bar 114
117 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesCS3S1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breathe on drums

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

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-45, snare through bars 46-47, silence through bars 48-54, hi-hat through bars 55-78 and silence through bars 79-82, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes. Open above.
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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