Broken · Sonata Arctica

145 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 10 and 12, and 6 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BROKEN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 88, 111, 112 and 120.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 111-112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 12 sections: 101 keep time, 6 are fills, 20 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART S9
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAFBCS9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Broken?

115 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 hard to play on drums?

51 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 88, 111, 112 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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