Broken Crown · Broken Crown

302 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 8:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
302
LENGTH
8:38
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-17, 19-20 and 23-25, and 21 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BROKEN CROWN · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 18, 21, 26, 29, 87, 99 and 40 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 135 · LANDS ON BAR 136 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

302 bars across 22 sections: 155 keep time, 46 are fills, 35 are stops and 51 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 191-205.

PART S5
PART B
PART L
PART L
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART C
BREAK
OUTRO 2
15 groovesFLS5CB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Broken Crown?

140 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 Crown hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

302 bars, about 8:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 Broken Crown?

7 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 18, 21, 26, 29, 87, 99 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 302 BARS ANALYSED
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