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Broken Fame · Fit for a King

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove B -- Intro
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COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS
PART M
PART AA
PART AE
PART AM
OUTRO
11 groovesBMQGAA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Broken Fame on drums

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

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-73, toms through bars 74-77, snare through bars 78-82, hi-hat through bars 83-90 and snare through bars 91-122.

The beat

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.

    51
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
Broken Fame -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- B, M -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-56 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Intro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Intro and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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