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Broken · Bad Religion

EXERCISE 20 OF 25
Fill at bar 67
103 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFJS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Broken on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
41/100

snare through bars 2-106.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-22, 32-42 and 68-86 -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    12               13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|x-----x-x-------|
HF |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Broken -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 3, 11, 23, 31, 43 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- F, D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-27 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 43-56 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Broken?

139 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 Broken hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 4 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Broken?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 3, 11, 23, 31, 43 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED