Breathing In A New Mentality · Underoath

135 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 63-68 -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BREATHING IN A NEW MENTALITY · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 30, 34, 38 and 6 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 12 sections: 78 keep time, 12 are fills, 34 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART L
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART Z
PART Y
11 groovesAELYZ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breathing In A New Mentality?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Breathing In A New Mentality hard to play on drums?

45 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Breathing In A New Mentality?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 30, 34, 38 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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