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Broken Promises · Element Eighty

Broken Promises · Element Eighty
EXERCISE 13 OF 37
Groove L
75 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Broken Promises on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
41/100

snare through bars 2-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, snare through bars 27-42, hi-hat through bars 43-44 and ride through bars 45-52, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x-------x---|
Broken Promises -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C, I, S -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-13 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 30-43 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-88 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-141 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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