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Breathing · Yellowcard

EXERCISE 26 OF 49
Join Part F to Part I (bars 55-57)
125 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART I
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART R
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesKRFS12B+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breathing on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40, snare through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-76 and snare through bars 77-78, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R, N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-68 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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