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Broken Wings · Alter Bridge

EXERCISE 4 OF 42
Groove B -- Part B
18 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Broken Wings on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-44 and ride through bars 45-77.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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