Broken Promises · Element Eighty

141 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 26 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BROKEN PROMISES · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 10, 42, 44 and 76.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 16 sections: 67 keep time, 5 are fills, 49 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-99.

PART C
CHORUS
PART P
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART C
OUTRO
9 groovesICSAP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Broken Promises?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Broken Promises hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 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 Promises?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 10, 42, 44 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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