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Broken Cross · Architects

EXERCISE 25 OF 76
Join Part F to Part G (bars 19-21)
80 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART G
CHORUS
PART F
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Broken Cross on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-31, snare through bars 32-80, silence through bars 81-82, snare through bars 83-129 and toms through bars 130-133, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 2, 4, 10, 12, 14, 17 and 53 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 -- A, O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-21 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-35 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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