Broken Crown · Im

118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 53-55 and 70-72, and 1 more place -- 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.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BROKEN CROWN · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 44 and 22 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 48-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 17 sections: 69 keep time and 28 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-121.

PART D
PART K
CHORUS
PART Q
PART S
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART K
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMKDUI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Broken Crown?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Crown?

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 44 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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