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Breathing New Life · Damageplan

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove J -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breathing New Life on drums

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.

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

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

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-24, snare through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-28, snare through bars 29-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-51, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Breathing New Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 2-17 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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