Broken Wings · Alter Bridge

77 bars, 4:24, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 45-47, and 3 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BROKEN WINGS · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 26, 29, 38, 43, 44 and 7 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 8 sections: 47 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-13.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGCQBS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Broken Wings?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Broken Wings hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 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 Wings?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 26, 29, 38, 43, 44 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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