Broken Fame · Fit for a King

122 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13 and 51-53, and 5 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 149 BPM
BROKEN FAME · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 33, 49, 58, 74, 75 and 3 more.

LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 15 sections: 75 keep time, 9 are fills, 8 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-113.

COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART M
PART Q
PART M
PART AA
PART AE
PART AM
OUTRO
11 groovesBMQGAA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Broken Fame?

149 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 Fame hard to play on drums?

61 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fame?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 33, 49, 58, 74, 75 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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