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Broken Telephone · Structures

Broken Telephone · Structures
EXERCISE 14 OF 70
Groove L -- Part L
39 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Broken Telephone on drums

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

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-42, hi-hat through bars 43-44, snare through bars 45-60, toms through bars 61-64 and snare through bars 65-106, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    29                                               30
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x--------x--------------|
BD |x-----------------x--x--------x--------x--------|x--------x--------x-----------------------x-----|
Broken Telephone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- V -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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