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Broken Crown · Broken Crown

EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART S5
PART B
PART L
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Broken Crown on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
302
LENGTH
8:38
DIFFICULTY
65/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-7, ride through bars 8-13, snare through bars 14-30, silence through bars 31-53 and kick and crashes through bars 54-85, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15               16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----xxxxxxxxxx|x-----x-----xxxx|
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 46 times: bars 18, 21, 26, 29, 87, 99 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, C -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-22 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-85 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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