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Broken One · Seventh Hour

Broken One · Seventh Hour
EXERCISE 12 OF 47
Fill at bar 16 and 54 (a small one)
80 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADHNTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Broken One on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, snare through bars 27-42, toms through bars 43-46, snare through bars 47-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-60, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 12, and 13 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Broken One -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 30, 34, 38 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-42 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-79 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Broken One?

152 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 One hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 One?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 30, 34, 38 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED