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Breathless · Asking Alexandria

EXERCISE 28 OF 103
Fill at bar 42
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0 / 103 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART H
PART L
PART O
CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breathless on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-38 and snare through bars 39-42, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Breathless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- L, T -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part H and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part L and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-39 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-47 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-64 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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