Breathless · Asking Alexandria

152 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 35-37, and 5 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BREATHLESS · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 43 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 1-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 20 sections: 83 keep time, 49 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-64.

PART H
PART L
PART O
PART Z
CHORUS 4
PART AM
PART AV
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesTHLBEZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breathless?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Breathless hard to play on drums?

53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Breathless?

28 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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