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Breathing In A New Mentality · Underoath

EXERCISE 18 OF 46
Fill at bar 34
63 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breathing In A New Mentality on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-24, toms through bars 25-26, snare through bars 27-55 and kick and crashes through bars 56-62, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-----o-----o---|--o-----o-------|
SD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
Breathing In A New Mentality -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, V -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-96 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part Z -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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