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BREEZIN' · Masayoshi Takanaka

EXERCISE 16 OF 63
Groove I
100 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BREEZIN' on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-72, ride through bars 73-76, hi-hat through bars 77-124, ride through bars 125-144 and hi-hat through bars 145-150.

The beat

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.

    70
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x---xx--x---x|
BREEZIN' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- T -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-37 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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