Broken Telephone · Structures

111 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-30, 33 and 35, and 4 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BROKEN TELEPHONE · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 6, 10, 15, 17, 20, 24 and 15 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 14 sections: 70 keep time, 21 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-35.

CHORUS
PART L
PART V
PART AB
PART AF
PART AL
PART V
PART AS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
10 groovesCVLASAB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Broken Telephone?

125 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 Telephone hard to play on drums?

60 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Telephone?

16 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 6, 10, 15, 17, 20, 24 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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