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Broken Crown · Im

EXERCISE 3 OF 54
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Broken Crown on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-10, toms through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, toms through bars 21-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-56, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---------------x-x-----x-x-|
Broken Crown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- K, M -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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