Breathing New Life · Damageplan

119 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-21, 41-48 and 83-85, and 2 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BREATHING NEW LIFE · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 97, 105 and 113.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 14 sections: 95 keep time, 3 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-81.

PART D
CHORUS
PART R
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART T
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJDRBT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breathing New Life?

131 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Breathing New Life hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Breathing New Life?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 97, 105 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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