Broken Cross · Architects

137 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 18 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BROKEN CROSS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 2, 4, 10, 12, 14, 17 and 53 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 12 sections: 61 keep time, 59 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-43.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART AA
PART AD
OUTRO
8 groovesAOADGAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Broken Cross?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Broken Cross hard to play on drums?

58 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Broken Cross?

21 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 2, 4, 10, 12, 14, 17 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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