BREEZIN' · Masayoshi Takanaka

150 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 5:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 69-72, 77-79 and 81-87, and 3 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BREEZIN' · BAR 70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 35, 36, 60, 61, 62 and 8 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 60-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 14 sections: 115 keep time, 14 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-125.

PART B
PART F
PART K
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
10 groovesTGFUK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BREEZIN'?

104 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 BREEZIN' hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 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 BREEZIN'?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 35, 36, 60, 61, 62 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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