Breathing · Yellowcard

162 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-34 and 37-39, and 7 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BREATHING · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 20, 28, 32 and 18 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 15 sections: 100 keep time, 24 are fills, 2 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-91.

PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesKRFS12B+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breathing?

180 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 hard to play on drums?

64 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 20, 28, 32 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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